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He argues that consciousness is proportional to the degree of integrated information of a system, and thus, humans are more conscious than simpler mammals, which are more conscious than bugs, which are more conscious than single-celled organisms, because each have larger and more integrated brains / nervous systems than the next. Computers are therefore minimally conscious (no matter the programming), argues Koch, since they can be reduced to their individual components, which can easily be decoupled from their neighbors without losing their individual functionality
He argues that consciousness is proportional to the degree of integrated information of a system, and thus, humans are more conscious than simpler mammals, which are more conscious than bugs, which are more conscious than single-celled organisms, because each have larger and more integrated brains / nervous systems than the next. Computers are therefore minimally conscious (no matter the programming), argues Koch, since they can be reduced to their individual components, which can easily be decoupled from their neighbors without losing their individual functionality
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Book Review: “The Feeling of Life Itself”
Author: Christof Koch
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