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| 18 hours ago | comment | added | user21820 | Thanks for stating the obvious, that it is fringe philosophy inspiring fringe biology. | |
| 22 hours ago | comment | added | J D | @Dcleve I admire your earnest attempt to undermine my steadfast refusal to broaden consciousness to oatmeal. ; ) But I'm an apologist for the orthodoxy on this as well as pan-computationalism. There's not much value to sprinkling consciousness and computation on clover and mushrooms and sand. (To distort, I'm sure Popper's views. ) | |
| yesterday | comment | added | Dcleve | Well, Karl Popper considered all life to have emergent consciousness, which was discovered through evolutionary accident, and proved radically useful for survival, by allowing hypothesis testing. Given that even single celled creatures have demonstrated the ability to learn, this speculation is supported by experiment. Nicholas Humphreys also considered all living things to be conscious, again on evolutionary grounds. See "Seeing Red". Lynn Margulis also considered all living things to be conscious, and intentional. | |
| yesterday | history | answered | J D | CC BY-SA 4.0 |