Is a colony of ants conscious?
Is a colony of ants conscious?
Caleb Diaz
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Noah Lopez
define "conscious"
Jose Rivera
Does it be like how people do?
Hunter Perez
It don't look like it be but it do what it be how it do.
Aaron Wilson
Yes.
Carter Barnes
Kevin Hughes
Subjectively experiences qualia, and isn't a P-zombie
Mason Moore
You don't think it be like it is but it do.
Gabriel Barnes
did they wreck it to do that?
Samuel Peterson
>qualia
Leo Flores
Yes, definitely.
Cameron Jackson
Yes, a guy I used to work with turned out to be and ant colony in disguise
Hudson Reyes
>qualia is paranormal
Found the P-zombie
Christian Jenkins
>Defining consciousness as the negation of a made up thought experiment's term for "not conscious"
Would you define apples as "not not apples?"
Jeremiah Reyes
This. Fucking P-zombies.
Benjamin Lee
>Everyone thinks p-zombies could be identified through differences in behavior, completely defeating the purpose of having that thought experiment in the first place
This is how you know dualism is garbage and nobody really believes it.
Lincoln Long
Happens to the best of us
Angel Sullivan
[math]\color{red}{\mathsf{No}}[/math]
Leo Ward
fuck I mean:
[math]\color{green}{\mathsf{Yes}}[/math]
Henry Young
If you think swarm intelligence is conscious, or just operating based on a set of predictable algorithms, but then again that could describe our brains too so who knows.
Luis Scott
Science is swarm intelligence. Is Science conscious?
Hunter Russell
It does do like how the people like do do
Easton Walker
Did you just not read the first qualifier?
>muh there is no qualia
lmao
Noah Ortiz
Is Veeky Forums conscious?
Michael Lee
A BUG THAT THINKS?! FRANKLY I FIND THE IDEA OFFENSIVE.
Alexander Garcia
That part's trash too, but let's take it one problem at a time.
Joshua Collins