[hamdani yusuf]

Anyone care to define consciousness?

I did try to define it in my thread about universal terminal goal.

Feel free to make a comment.

[alancalverd]

Nicely presented, but full of holes,my friend!  For example "reducing neurons" does flip a binary "some" to "none" when you remove the last one; you talk about "accurate" representations in memory but we know that organic memory is not accurate; requirement to make changes in response to stimuli - so a brain without arms is not conscious, but it's pretty clear that an octopus (arms without a brain) is.....and so forth.

[hamdani yusuf]

Nicely presented, but full of holes,my friend!  For example "reducing neurons" does flip a binary "some" to "none" when you remove the last one; you talk about "accurate" representations in memory but we know that organic memory is not accurate;

Organic memory is not accurate due to noise and interference. It's not precise due to limited capacity.

[hamdani yusuf]

so a brain without arms is not conscious,

Some people have no arms since birth. Some have legs, but some others don't. You shouldn't assume that they are not conscious.