why did you post a picture of your pea brain?

why did it make it big

Scarypoolparty Broke Dreams

spooky

that moment when you type yoy instead of you xD

just hummus?

yum. my aunt is a hummus stan, it's so good on pitas and stuff 🤤

The Problem of Consciousness

A. Discuss the problem of consciousness as it concerns the relationships among humans-animals-machines.

Consciousness is somewhat oxymoronic in regards to its presence in our everyday lives. While being something we live with, are aware of, and make use of every day, we still can’t find a way to truly describe what consciousness is outside of its basic definition as something that enables us to experience self-awareness and subjective sensations, such as heat and pain. However, the fact that every baseline human is capable of subjective experience raises a major question regarding consciousness within ourselves and how it exists as something that makes everyone unique. How are we capable of consciousness, not in a way that involves simple awareness and sentience, but also our ability to experience phenomena in a subjective fashion? This is known as the hard problem of consciousness, or simply the problem of consciousness. In this essay, we’ll begin by investigating this question and its significance to the human experience. However, from there on, we will open the topic to something extremely important to our future, both in the world of ethics and the world of technology. Essentially, the questions we will be asking involve the following: what about non-human animals; do they experience consciousness? What about machines? Do machines currently have a form of consciousness? And if they can eventually achieve human-level intelligence, will it come with a form of consciousness similar to human emotion? These are questions we have to consider and answer in this essay, and it can only start by exploring what we can’t really answer ourselves first. 

To be able to understand humanlike consciousness, we first have to understand human consciousness and the problem of consciousness. Consciousness, according to Merriam-Webster, is defined as “sentience or awareness of internal or external existence”. Depending on the person one speaks to, this definition can range from something as simple as a human being able to perceive itself in a way that expands beyond simple natural needs to the entirety of our private life including inner thought along with experience, sensation, and emotion. However, it is widely believed that the conscious is not just one single entity within our mind, but something that encompasses two different behaviors. Ned Block,  an American philosopher, explained on the 375th page of his 1998 book The Nature of Consciousness: Philosophical Debates that there are two types of consciousness that he called phenomenal consciousness (P-consciousness, or AC for our brevity) and access consciousness (A-consciousness, or AC). PC focuses more on the raw experience a human occurs when viewing or participating in phenomena, such as the positive emotion we feel when seeing someone that one has romantic feelings for. This is a raw experience and has little effect on our behavior as it stands by itself. However, AC is the ability for our brain to perceive the information received through PC and use it to adjust behavior and thought through conscious introspection and perception. To advance our previous example, while PC is the joy in seeing your opposite, AC is the conscious change in behavior that one goes in an attempt to see the desired partner. Experiences regarding PC can be subconsciously conditioned through rigorous training of AC behavior, and much of our reflexes and subconscious behaviors, from pain to the Oedipus Complex, can be traced back to hundreds of thousands of millennia of PC experience. However, many other philosophers argue against this, with others dividing the consciousness into various ways, such as Kong Derick’s division of the consciousness into high-level consciousness and low-level consciousness (the subconscious). Others, such as William Lycan, believe that there are as many as 8 different forms of consciousness

So we seem to have a basic understanding of how human consciousness works in that it has a receptive and computative aspect. However, we still have to ask a vital question regarding why the conscious works the way it does, or why it even works in the first place. This is best put by David Chalmers in his 1995 journal “Facing Up to the Problem of Consciousness.” In it, he puts simply that AC can be understood simply in mechanistic terms, considering the fact that its technically simple processing and application of experience. However, understanding PC is what he defines as the “hard problem of consciousness.” Why do the phenomena that humans experience through PC vary from human to human in a subjective matter? A second angle of the question asks why some inner states are felt (or perceived) rather than actual and tangible, such as pain and heat. This problem has evaded philosophers, anatomists, and neurologists for centuries, going as far back as Isaac Newton. The reason it is called a “hard problem” is due to the fact that it cannot be solved through the traditional scientific method and many attempts to solve it come through philosophical postulation. Answers have ranged from scientific reasoning saying that the conscious is just the conscious interfacing with integrated information and the inverse relationship between the two creating an opportunity to quantify the conscious, to a simple claim of a lack of epistemic hard problem, and there is simply not enough information to truly solve the problem yet. Regardless of what theories are proposed that could possibly find a solution to this existential question, there is still little in way of such a solution.

If we can’t even figure out the nature of our own conscious, relating the conscious we have to that of other living beings on earth is an ethical problem that has only begun in the most recent collection of decades, albeit with a ferocity

Instead of "I love you to death" they said "I love you to life"

That's a new one.

I would read that long ass post but my attention span is fjcked

ilytd = i love you til my heart stop beating <3

SLEPT ON COMDOMENT

STOP RUINING FOODS WITH M🤢YO

The idea human consciousness is the set standard for other living life has always been weird to me.

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gm queen

thanks king

Btw what is the preferred cut for the new smileys? Used to be small as hell but i think they’re bigger on here