On Sunday, November 09, 2025, at 8:34 AM, Matt Mahoney wrote: > Are dogs conscious? Are fish conscious? Are insects conscious? At what point > after conception does a human become conscious? Is an LLM that passes the > Turing test conscious? Is a simple reinforcement learner like > http://mattmahoney.net/autobliss.txt conscious? > > A philosophical zombie is defined to be exactly like a human by any > behavioral test except for lacking consciousness. Are you OK with this > definition? If not, what is your test for consciousness?
UCP consciousness is easy, everything has consciousness just some things have more. And it should be somewhat computable or estimable. Animals obviously are conscious, bugs, bacteria, the tricky things are rocks but take that down to atomic. Does an atom have consciousness? Yes simply because it is possible to know that it exists via some physical interaction, a protocol, and for it to sense that something else exists. But an insect would have less consciousness than a human simply due to the scaling. Humans have more bandwidth and symbol complexity. An exercise might be to determine if one protein molecule has more consciousness than a different protein molecule. Does empty space have consciousness? Yes it would have to since forces are present. Sounds simplistic but to me it seems to resolve ALL issues with consciousness. It might not be complete with quantum fields or whatever but I think it might just fit in with entanglement, superposition, etc.. ------------------------------------------ Artificial General Intelligence List: AGI Permalink: https://agi.topicbox.com/groups/agi/T7ff992c51cca9e36-M52de588bc5fd8beef3b2b4cf Delivery options: https://agi.topicbox.com/groups/agi/subscription
