[ExI] LLM are connecting all terrestrial intelligence

[Ben Zaiboc]

On 21/05/2026 18:22, Jason Resch wrote:
> In my analysis of the consciousness of other species: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1VEmrtMUtWQ4JsAzskDZfTJ1xtHG1jq1I/view?usp=sharing
>
> I outline 10 classes of conscious minds, ranked more or less progressively in terms of increasing sophistication:
> 1. Reactive: can respond to stimuli
> 2. Stateful: keeps distinct internal states
> 3. Adaptive: can store memories and learn
> 4. Attentive: maintains a model of the environment
> 5. Reflective: models the self within the environment
> 6. Empathic: models others as entities with their own minds
> 7. Contemplative: thinks about abstract objects and the future
> 8. Introspective: can have second-order thoughts about thoughts
> 9. Metacognitive: has third-order thoughts about nature of thought
> 10. Superfluid: can arbitrarily reorganize itself to experience any qualia
>
> Use of language, depending on the level of language sophistication, can point to different levels of minds on this scale. For example, displacement is the ability to think and talk about things that are not physically present. Using displacement in speech indicates a degree of abstract reasoning capacity, which is characteristic of "level 7" minds.


So bees have 'level7' minds???

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Ben