⚡️💬 NEW - Michael Levin says your brain might not be the only thing in your body that's conscious.
Organs like your liver pursue goals and solve problems.
By the same standards we use to recognize minds, they qualify.
He's using AI to build translators. Tools to ask the body what it wants.
“We should be able to ask the liver questions about things it cares about.”
https://blossom.primal.net/8f527df81dc1e250c85c1887b078f83dca2b53b1d608bcdefc32e1da4db194e7.mov
Discussion
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Implications.
Consciousness would not merely be organized matter/energy (through a mechanistic causal process, but not teleological) arranged in a sufficiently complex manner to reflect upon itself; rather, it would be a dynamic-evolutionary manifestation of a pre-existing universal consciousness from which this very matter/energy draws, as such consciousness requires 'incarnation' in a multitude of instruments. Or more precisely, it necessitates reflection in many mirrors.
Even more accurately: as if the countless forms of sentient 'life' were nothing more than the five (or more) senses of primordial/aprioristic consciousness.
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