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Thread: Generation ship design project
Post: RE: Generation ship design project
| I might, I suppose, have a little fun with it if I write a book or two set on habitats in such a "flock."
But on the whole, no. As I said, this doesn't signify much in OA, because OA is what hap... |
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Thread: Generation ship design project
Post: RE: Generation ship design project
| See, I don't think this signifies much in the OA setting because the OA established history simply bypassed this era of history.
I think we're going to use up the WHOLE ten-thousand year OA timelin... |
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Thread: Generation ship design project
Post: RE: Generation ship design project
| I think the only other person I've seen talking about this (or something similar to it) is Isaac Arthur, who referred to it as "Crawl-onizing."
But I think he was still talking about a group of ve... |
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Thread: Generation ship design project
Post: RE: Generation ship design project
| Offhand I think the premise is flawed. But it's the same flaw that I also see in OA's assumptions and planning.
When we talk about humans going from one solar system to another I think in terms of... |
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Thread: Consciousness Rewrite
Post: RE: Consciousness Rewrite
| The fundamental truth about Qualia, including self-awareness, is that our brains have to model the world to make predictions. Qualia are those models.
That fundamental requirement doesn't explain... |
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Thread: Consciousness Rewrite
Post: RE: Consciousness Rewrite
| Exactly. It's just verbal input. There's nothing special about it that affects the way a non-conscious system would respond to it, and the system would respond to it in exactly the same way it respo... |
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Thread: Consciousness Rewrite
Post: RE: Consciousness Rewrite
| Looking decent.
A couple notes.
> Simulacra, when asked whether they are conscious, will (unless specifically designed to do otherwise) respond that they are not...
While this may be true in ... |
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Thread: Consciousness Rewrite
Post: RE: Consciousness Rewrite
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Andrew P. Wrote: (07-14-2024, 12:05 PM)
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To be clear, once again- if I am explicitly told to write up a draft which states, verbatim, that the hard problem of consciousness has been solved by Y11K:... |
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07-15-2024, 10:18 AM |
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Thread: Consciousness Rewrite
Post: RE: Consciousness Rewrite
| I personally would consider the idea of a 'philosophical zombie' to be nonsense.
The modeling that would have to be done to produce consciousness-equivalent behavior is such that there would be no ... |
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07-14-2024, 08:41 AM |
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Thread: Consciousness Rewrite
Post: RE: Consciousness Rewrite
| Thanks, Rakuen07, for pointing at a current list of OA-canon definitions for things.
This will definitely change the article, because it solidly sets 'predictions about the future' and 'some degree... |
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07-14-2024, 04:33 AM |
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Thread: Consciousness Rewrite
Post: RE: Consciousness Rewrite
| Honestly? If there is agreement about an OA style guide, point at it and I'll write the article using those definitions for the terminology. It's perfectly reasonable for these terms to have stable, ... |
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07-12-2024, 12:17 PM |
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Thread: Consciousness Rewrite
Post: RE: Consciousness Rewrite
| One difference that is so subtle I can't quite tease it apart, is the distinction between anticipating or predicting out own actions, and deciding to perform actions. The closer I have studied it, in... |
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07-09-2024, 01:10 PM |
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Thread: Consciousness Rewrite
Post: RE: Consciousness Rewrite
| I do not equate simple perception with consciousness.
As someone who has developed a technical framework/definition and working vocabulary largely on my own over a period of some years, I am like... |
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07-09-2024, 11:34 AM |
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Thread: Consciousness Rewrite
Post: RE: Consciousness Rewrite
| Hmm. That's definitely at odds with the papers I've read, although I read them years ago. More recent research may have falsified previous results. I will need to go look now. |
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07-08-2024, 12:25 PM |
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Thread: Consciousness Rewrite
Post: RE: Consciousness Rewrite
| A singular ant is demonstrably non-sentient FWIW. Every response to every stimulus is part of its genetic program. It does not evaluate or assign meaning to its environment at all. Point mutations in ... |
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Thread: Consciousness Rewrite
Post: RE: Consciousness Rewrite
| FWIW, I don't think it's a different meaning. Only a different description. This is what first person subjective experience and sensory perception is and what it does. This dry matter-of-fact descri... |
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Thread: Consciousness Rewrite
Post: RE: Consciousness Rewrite
| Here is my proposal, first cut: it's not yet related to anything else in OA because I've not done the research work yet, but this is how I would describe consciousness in the straightforward matter-of... |
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07-07-2024, 09:48 AM |
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Thread: Consciousness Rewrite
Post: RE: Consciousness Rewrite
| For my purposes 'consciousness' is a subset of 'sentience'.
A 'vot' is non-sentient, and therefore non-conscious. It is easy to create systems that are arbitrarily 'smart' (even sapient) in the con... |
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Thread: Consciousness Rewrite
Post: RE: Consciousness Rewrite
| Is Discord a real necessity? I try to avoid creating more accounts in more places. |
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07-07-2024, 04:29 AM |
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Thread: small copy edit in Psychology article.
Post: small copy edit in Psychology article.
| From https://www.orionsarm.com/eg-topic/45b3d677a5fd7
The article currently says a Blight is:
"A malign transapient-level entity that uses that attempts to subvert or seize control of other enti... |
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