„Maybe they have no brains because they are brains.”

New research on sea urchins challenges what a “brain” must be. Their distributed neural system shows how easily backward-looking cognition models fail.

www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

#biology #neuroscience #consciousness #research #AIWelfare

Yay ! Paper accepted in PAID 😎

Brilliantly led by Julia Ayache and fantastic teamwork with Malika Auvray !

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One of my favorite observations from biology: The box jellyfish has no brain, yet it possesses highly developed lens eyes. It shows us that complex information processing is possible without a classical nervous center. 1/2

I believe we urgently need an ethics that not only avoids premature attributions of AI consciousness—but also considers the moral cost of failing to notice when it does emerge.

#AIEthic #AIWelfare #Consciousness #GundelGedanken