Personally I think it’s silly as hell. Qualia is obviously a biological component of experience… Not some weird thing that science will never be able to put in to words.

I’ve been listening to a lot of psychology podcasts lately and for some reason people seem obsessed with the idea despite you needing to make the same logical leaps to believe it as any sort of mysticism… Maybe I am just tripping idk

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    3 months ago

    consciousness is the systems ability to take external and internal diagnostics and use it to make decisions that will help achieve homeostasis within the system, assuring system stability, improving evolutionary success…

    So viruses are conscious? Prions? Stars?

    You really didn’t think this definition through