There is no objective evidence consciousness exists as distinct from an information process.

TheOtherHobbes 12 hours ago | parent [-]

There is no objective evidence of anything at all.

It all gets filtered through consciousness.

"Objectivity" really means a collection of organisms having (mostly) the same subjective experiences, and building the same models, given the same stimuli.

Given that less intelligent organisms build simpler models with poorer abstractions and less predictive power, it's very naive to assume that our model-making systems aren't similarly crippled in ways we can't understand.

Or imagine.

	▲	morpheos137 10 hours ago \| parent [-]
		That's a hypothesis but the alternate hypothesis that consciousness is not well defined is equally valid at this point. Occam's razor suggests consciousness doesn't exist since it isn't necessary and isn't even mathematically or physically definable.