alt Hacker NewsCan you tell me how you understand that?
Because I sincerely do not. I have frankly no idea how sentience arises from non sentience. But it's a topic that really interests me.
Can you tell me how you understand that?
Because I sincerely do not. I have frankly no idea how sentience arises from non sentience. But it's a topic that really interests me.
We have examples of non sentience everywhere already with animals. And then an example of sentience with humans. So if you diff our brains the difference lies within a module in our prefrontal cortex. It’s a black box of logic but I can ‘understand’ or be willing to accept that it’s owed to ‘just’ more grey matter adding the self awareness to the rest of the system.
But to me the big mystery is how animals have sensation at all to begin with. What gives rise to that is a greater mystery to me personally.
There are examples of people who have no ability to feel pain yet are still able to think. Now I wonder if they ever experience mental anguish.