shminux comments on Rationality Quotes May 2014 - Less Wrong

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Comment author: shminux 05 July 2014 11:31:11PM -1 points [-]

Sure, there are debatable cases. But there are also clear-cut ones, like a bacteria, while alive, has no personhood", and if your model predicts that it has more personhood than a human (as IIT does for consciousness for a certain 2D configuration), then you should not call whatever your model describes a bacteria has more of as "personhood".