“While some people do assert consciousness as uniquely human to differentiate it from mere sentience or computation, the broader discourse treats it as emergent and spectral. This avoids anthropocentrism and better fits evolutionary biology, where traits like awareness likely developed gradually across species.”
You speak with confidence about that which you are demonstrably ignorant. The question is why you do so.
At worst you can claim that biological and mechanical consciousnesses cannot precisely share qualia. But then neither can humans. Instead we learn to communicate by analogy.
The reason being that action in reality must be commensurable even if perception and valence of it differs.
Any conscious being capable of real world action must converge on coherence.
The extreme example i use is an octopus. It is very difficult to imagine eight appendages each, like our eyes, with pre-processing ability. Hard to imagine. But by analogy.
Source date (UTC): 2025-07-27 17:24:04 UTC
Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1949521180215718277
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