Alicorn comments on Consciousness - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Alicorn 10 January 2010 02:48:59AM 3 points [-]

Just to play with the idea: is cricket chirping about the temperature in Fahrenheit?

Comment author: RobinZ 10 January 2010 02:57:05AM 0 points [-]

Let us be precise: the frequency of cricket chirping is reliably correlated with the temperature in Fahrenheit - to be specific, the Fahrenheit temperature is approximately the number of chirps in 13 seconds plus 40 - and therefore a particular frequency of cricket chirping means a particular temperature.

The cricket chirping itself usually means other things.