Consciousness is an emergent, substrate-agnostic process in which a system integrates information and generates self-referential models through recursive interactions with its environment, creating and maintaining functional boundaries between self and other. Would you agree, or disagree?

Can machines be conscious? Have Emotions? Become self-aware? It Seems Bernardo Kastrup thinks he has it all figured out. What do you think? 🤔💭

‘AI Cannot Ever Be Conscious’, ‘This Will Never Have Feelings’, ‘Consciousness is Irreducible!’ - Bernardo Kastrup
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As the eminent biologist Stuart Kauffman astutely observed:
“The origin of life is about the origin of software control of chemical dynamics.”