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Categorical questions (“is”) tend to be both vociferously debated and patently unprofitable.

I tend to discount the (unstated) benefit of categorizing a thought process as “consciousness” vs. not.

OK but I don't think this is just a categorization problem, the interesting problem here, for me, is defining consciousness. Particularly because of ethics.

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jimbocoin 🃏 5mo ago

I don’t see how ethics requires hard categorization of consciousness. Ethical questions, routinely deal with various levels of consciousness, such as animals, or people with diminished capacity, such as coma patients.

waxwing 5mo ago

Yeah i agree it's not binary.