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We are compelled to feel that consciousness is not a mere epiphenomenon, a useless by-product of brain activity, but that it has a function of its own — though what that function is remains the deepest of unsolved problems.

— Charles Sherrington, Man on His Nature (1940)
6d ago

He proposes that minds are patterns in a structured, nonphysical space, and that bodies provide interfaces through which those patterns enter the physical world. He argues that many things beyond humans and animals can be interfaces, including computers, which is the most compelling argument I've heard that AI might be able to become "conscious" or "alive."

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