Very plausibly, consciousness simply can’t arise from non-conscious processes and materials. However, materialist ideologies in conjunction with emergent technologies that mimic conscious behavior have overridden this intuition in many people. Hence the current AI discourse.
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substance 6 · argument · rank 90 · Consciousness plausibly cannot emerge from non-conscious materials, explaining misguided AI consciousness discourse
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So does that mean that a single neuron in a petri dish is conscious? How about a carbon atom?