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Interestingly, none of the dictionary definitions has anything to do with intelligence or selfawareness. It's all about responding to, or being capable of responding to, a stimulus. Which is the characteristic of all living things. A shark can respond to a drop of blood in a swimming pool, which makes it billions of times more conscious than you or me.
I detect a fellow skeptic in the area of rights and privileges!
Even in the common usage, consciousness have some levels.
Very much so. You don't have to be literate to be a narcissist (Donald Trump struggles with words in lower case and has the style and vocabulary of a 6-year-old) or anorexic - two extremes of selfawareness. After 70 hours without sleep, few junior doctors are aware of anything, never mind themselves.As for consciousness, you seem now to be defining it as "something bigger than its definition". An amusing take on Russell's Paradox but not very helpful.
Consciousness is the state or quality of awareness.
Having inaccurate model of reality reduce the agent's consciousness level, since it would render their plan's execution less effective.
Quote from: hamdani yusuf on 13/02/2020 03:18:25Having inaccurate model of reality reduce the agent's consciousness level, since it would render their plan's execution less effective.Though barely literate and with no concept of reality, Trump is extremely effective in executing his plan to build a big wall and get re-elected. Who cares about reality when you can shout into a microphone?
Scientists have continuously improved their understanding about consciousness. Here is one of newest results.QuoteIn a wild new experiment conducted on monkeys, scientists discovered that a tiny, but powerful area of the brain may enable consciousness: the central lateral thalamus. Activation of the central lateral thalamus and deep layers of the cerebral cortex drives pathways in the brain that carry information between the parietal and frontal lobe in the brain, the study suggests.This brain circuit works as a sort-of “engine for consciousness,” the researchers say, enabling conscious thought and feeling in primates.To zero in on this brain circuit, a scientific team put macaque monkeys under anesthesia, then stimulated different parts of their brain with electrodes at a frequency of 50 Hertz. Essentially, they zapped different areas of the brain and observed how the monkeys responded. When the central lateral thalamus was stimulated, the monkeys woke up and their brain function resumed — even though they were STILL UNDER ANESTHESIA. Seconds after the scientists switched off the stimulation, the monkeys went right back to sleep.This research was published Wednesday in the journal Neuron.“Science doesn’t often leave opportunity for exhilaration, but that’s what that moment was like for those of us who were in the room,” co-author Michelle Redinbaugh, a researcher at the University of Wisconsin, Madison, tells Inverse.https://www.inverse.com/mind-body/3d-brain-models-crucial-stage-of-human-developmenthttps://www.cell.com/neuron/fulltext/S0896-6273(20)30005-2
In a wild new experiment conducted on monkeys, scientists discovered that a tiny, but powerful area of the brain may enable consciousness: the central lateral thalamus. Activation of the central lateral thalamus and deep layers of the cerebral cortex drives pathways in the brain that carry information between the parietal and frontal lobe in the brain, the study suggests.This brain circuit works as a sort-of “engine for consciousness,” the researchers say, enabling conscious thought and feeling in primates.To zero in on this brain circuit, a scientific team put macaque monkeys under anesthesia, then stimulated different parts of their brain with electrodes at a frequency of 50 Hertz. Essentially, they zapped different areas of the brain and observed how the monkeys responded. When the central lateral thalamus was stimulated, the monkeys woke up and their brain function resumed — even though they were STILL UNDER ANESTHESIA. Seconds after the scientists switched off the stimulation, the monkeys went right back to sleep.This research was published Wednesday in the journal Neuron.“Science doesn’t often leave opportunity for exhilaration, but that’s what that moment was like for those of us who were in the room,” co-author Michelle Redinbaugh, a researcher at the University of Wisconsin, Madison, tells Inverse.
But what we have here is an evil man pretending to be naïve. The damage done by his heroes lasted for decades.
It would be a lot easier to understand something if you could define it. So far you have rejected the clinical, dictionary definition and asserted that the word means some abstract characteristic of living things that cannot be defined or measured, but can be used to rank the things that possess it. Not a fruitful starting point.
It isn't defined as multidimensional but anydimensional. A thing is either conscious or not
It is also worth remembering that we do not live in a static, perfect world. There will always be hard cases and exceptions, which need to be dealt with as such and not necessarily to impact the general framework. Simple case: you should pay your taxes. But if your house has just burnt down, your overriding imperative is to shelter your family, not to give the government money to squander on railway consultants. Simpler still: you shouldn't kill civilians, but there's no point in coming second in a fight.