On 3/17/2018 4:08 PM, John Clark wrote:
*NONSENSE!* Evolution produced me. I know with 100% certainty that I am conscious. I very strongly suspect billions of other things are conscious too. I know for a fact Evolution can detect intelligent behavior but it can’t detect consciousness and yet I am consciousness. Therefor consciousness MUST be a byproduct intelligence.
The evolutionary argument is a good one for brains like humans and other animals. But it may be that consciousness is only entailed by intelligence that is realized by neural nets with limited memory or some other constraints that are accidents of the evolution of intelligence on Earth. Intelligence realized in some other way might not be conscious, or might be conscious in different way that we couldn't recognize as such.
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