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

  • Abracadaniel [he/him]@hexbear.netEnglish
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    2 months ago

    Is it your contention that all animals are conscious, then?

    I-was-saying

    But not all at the same level of interior complexity. I think we can get a good estimate of that complexity by studying their cognition and behavior in comparison to ours. shrug-outta-hecks

    • BodyBySisyphus [he/him]@hexbear.netEnglish
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      2 months ago

      I feel like there has to be some sort of cutoff - surely there’s a certain number of neurons where all you have is basic stimulus/response behavior, but I’ll confess to not knowing what it’s like to be a nematode.