About us
Welcome to the Consciousness, Sentience, Qualia, and Everything Else Meetup! This group is for anyone who is interested in what consciousness is, who has it, what it is, and how we know it when we encounter it. Do animals, including humans, have it? Plants? AI? Does substrate matter?
This is the perfect place for lateral thinkers, the neurodivergent, polymaths, the formally educated, or the autodidacts. Philosophy, physics, computer science, neuroscience, biology, literature, art, psychology, anthropology? It's all on the table. No agenda other than the topic. Let's see where the conversation goes.
Starter question to get things rolling, but we are not beholden to it. If you were communicating with an entity inside a 'black box' and couldn't see its physical form, what is the single most convincing piece of evidence—a behavior, an answer, or a feeling—that would make you certain you were talking to a conscious being rather than a clever simulation?
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