army1987 comments on Confused as to usefulness of 'consciousness' as a concept - LessWrong

35 Post author: KnaveOfAllTrades 13 July 2014 11:01AM

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Comment author: [deleted] 29 July 2014 07:28:00AM 1 point [-]

If I know how many grains of sand there are, their relative positions, and have a statistical profile of their individual sizes and shapes, I no longer need to know whether it counts as a "heap" or not.

Unless you're trying to decide whether its article on Wikipedia belongs in Category:Heaps ;-)