[ExI] wicked

[Anton Sherwood]

A suggestion, at least, has been made that self-awareness appears when a 
mental model of the world, and behavior consequent to that model, 
becomes complex enough that it must take itself into account.
Then it's an inevitable consequence of agency + increasing brainpower.

But maybe some of you are thinking "that's not what I mean by 
consciousness / sapience / sentience."

On 2021-9-26 16:37, William Flynn Wallace via extropy-chat wrote:
> I'll bet neurologists could tell us several places in the brain
> which, if deadened, would lead to loss of consciousness.

You appear to have switched from one definition of 'consciousness' 
(associated with self-awareness; what a philosophical zombie lacks) to 
another (responsiveness to stimuli).

Or do you mean Cotard delusion can be induced?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philosophical_zombie
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cotard_delusion

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