Like human beings. (Metzinger) Prohibitions against murder would either have to be based on something other than "killing of defenseless persons" since we would not be persons after all or we would have to radically update / redefine our folk psychological definition in the law of a "natural person".Wouldn't it be odd if a consensus emerges around IIT, and it's agreed that harming/deactivating systems with X amount of information integration is a crime, and then we discover such systems were never conscious? — RogueAI
Like human beings. (Metzinger) Prohibitions against murder would either have to be based on something other than "defenseless killing of persons" since we would not be persons after all or we would have to radically update / redefine our folk psychological definition in the law of a "nature person"
:up: Like a photon that can be described as either a wave or a particle, thus conceived of as 'wave-particle (implicate-explicate?) physicalism'. I prefer this to "neutral monism" because it commits to a specific ontological-type of monism e.g. the physical.Dual-aspect monism. There's only physical stuff with mental and non-mental components. — Manuel
I don't think that there are any easy answers, even with the help of neuroscience. — Jack Cummins
According to the theory of living systems, mind is not a thing but a process_ the very process of life. In other words, the organizing activity of living systems, at all levels of life, is mental activity. The interactions of a living organism_ plant, animal, or human_ with its environment are cognitive, or mental interactions. Thus life and cognition become inseparably connected. Mind_ or, more accurately, mental process is imminent in matter at all levels of life.'
I am not saying that this solves the problem, but I find what he is saying to be helpful. — Jack Cummins
No. The map =/= the territory; that's why maps are useful (inadequate yet indispensable) as maps – because they are abstractions from the terrain – that approximate, thereby are fallibilistic and revisable.I wonder if it is possible to go beyond the labels because they may be only approximations and, may be inadequate. — Jack Cummins
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