2026-04-14 15:10 UTC
@tchambers@indieweb.social @dyckron@cosocial.ca I’m still not understanding why one couldn’t simply say “systems that are sufficiently integrated *produce* consciousness” (this would become a sort of functionalist view). Putting the magic into all matter everywhere seems less plausible than only certain systems producing magic.
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@tchambers@indieweb.social 2026-04-14 15:26
@michaelgemar@cosocial.ca @dyckron@cosocial.ca Panpsychists (and IIT supporters) argue that if you say consciousness only "emerges" at a certain level of complexity, you have to explain the "Hard Problem." How does "dead" matter suddenly become "alive" with feeling? They argue it’s actually less plausible and more magical to have a "magic threshold" where consciousness suddenly appears out of nowhere than that it is fundamental like gravity.