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Comment author: Error 27 August 2013 09:30:14PM 0 points [-]

It has the weird aspect of putting consciousness on a continuum,

I find I feel less confused about consciousness when thinking of it as a continuum. I'm reminded of this, from Heinlein:

"Am not going to argue whether a machine can 'really' be alive, 'really' be self-aware. Is a virus self-aware? Nyet. How about oyster? I doubt it. A cat? Almost certainly. A human? Don't know about you, tovarishch, but I am."

Comment author: Furslid 29 August 2013 06:18:17AM 1 point [-]

Absolutely. I do too. I just realized that the continuum provides another interesting question.

Is the following scale of consciousness correct?

Human > Chimp > Dog > Toad > Any possible AI with no biological components

The biological requirement seems to imply this. It seems wrong to me.

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