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Comment by AndrewKemendo

1 day ago

Most human societies claim dominance over “everything else” aka “nature” and in order to do that you need a reason “humans” are different from “nature”

Maybe, but making intelligence an intrinsic property of matter feels like a bold step.

  • There are other bolder things I've seen recently that are somewhat interesting.

    Michael Levin and a few other biologists are wondering if certain combinations of matter are tapping into platonic maths that they use for 'intelligence compute'.

  • I mean Roger Penrose proposes that consciousness is inside the waveform collapse so…

    Many definitions of intelligence and ultimately consciousness rely on fanciful ideas and complex theories