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> And it was then that I realized that consciousness was probably a fairly large collective, like a jellyfish, rather than a single thread.

Given that it's chemical and electrical signals, probably in some semi-hierarchical pattern, isn't that how it "must" be?

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I think for me, the epiphany was the scale of parallelism, probably thousands of times greater than I previously considered. The article also contrasts between the classical view which looks like a single thread and something with quite a bit more concurrency.

The transfer times, the internal reaction/processing times and the hierarchical structure likely makes this different and more chaotic compared to a big neural net, which is more like a function.

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