alt Hacker News> consciousness is just a fundamental property of all matter ... Does that really make more sense than as an emergent property of the arrangement of matter?
> consciousness is just a fundamental property of all matter ... Does that really make more sense than as an emergent property of the arrangement of matter?
Consciousness is something you can perceive, so it must have some physical presense in the universe, which must be through some fundamental property of matter, in my opinion.
The ability to be aware of consciousness itself as some process that is happening elevates it above a mere emergent property to me.