[ExI] Digital Consciousness .

[Stathis Papaioannou]

On Tue, Apr 30, 2013 at 5:45 PM, Eugen Leitl <eugen at leitl.org> wrote:
> On Mon, Apr 29, 2013 at 10:53:25PM +1000, Stathis Papaioannou wrote:
>
>> > I do appreciate that 'quale' is homophonic with 'quail' because
>> > homophones are generally amusing.
>>
>> It's synonymous with "experience". Do you disbelieve in that as well?
>
> Does euglena "experience" the perception of light during phototaxis?

I suspect at some level yes, otherwise there would have to be some
special consciousness spark entering at some evolutionary point
between euglena and humans, and that seems implausible.


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Stathis Papaioannou