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Is it? Personal theory is consciousness scales, like we're more conscious than a bug, but a bug still definitely conscious.

Then like A.I. overlords / borg hive mind more conscious still.

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How far down does the scale go? Are brainless animals like oysters conscious? What about the mycelium network underneath a forest?

Well maybe better way to state, less 'conscious' and more 'things they're conscious of.'

Maybe it does, but does intelligence require consciousness?

And: Is the question empirical or analytic? It is hard to discuss such matters without an agreed framework, definitions. The definitions for these terms are a long-standing analytic conundrum.

Abstractly, it is hard to understand how any performance could require consciousness unless consciousness is defined as a class of performance. If it is, then the question boils down to "Is performance class I a proper subset of performance class C?" Which is, prima facie, an analytic question.

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