Comment by tasuki

18 hours ago

> reasonably assume that your experience is similar to mine

You could be the only conscious being in the universe and all of us just zombies: you have no way of knowing.

What's it like to be a monkey instead? Dog? Bat? Tree? We don't know.

No one's saying the graphics card is conscious. I could imagine the graphic cards could give rise to consciousness. But - crucially - I don't know. And neither do you.

You say you're conscious - where in you does the consciousness reside? Surely not the left pinky? What makes you you?

What if everything's conscious, we just can't understand the communication mechanisms at different levels? o.O