Okay, but who’s to say your whole body isn’t just reactions? Unless you define what consciousness is, it’s an ambiguous statement.
Don’t get me wrong, I agree with you, but this is exactly the problem. People keep making broad claims without first agreeing on a testable definition of consciousness.
Exactly, and I also think that people confuse consciousness and intelligence. A creature can definitely be conscious even with a simple (or possibly no) mind.
In my experience, the majority of philosophers trying to define consciousness do it with pseudoscientific spiritualism. There seems to be an irresistible urge to distinguish humans as special, as if we would suddenly disappear by acknowledging we’re just funny thinky animals.
There’s such a debate over whether or not cells in a dish have consciousness, and whether or not pure silicon representations of those cells would also have consciousness.
So very little effort goes into defining what consciousness is, because humans are scared to find that there are really only two likely possibilities: almost everything is conscious, or nothing (including us) is.
Republicans are the ones who get hurt by gas prices the most, since they are the ones driving big trucks for no reason.
Also it’s a concrete number they understand because they see it plastered on billboards everywhere. They can conveniently ignore rent because it’s not as “public” of a number.
Oh no, how will I ever download Ubuntu oh wait I’ll just use the torrent like always
Who fucking cares if Ubuntu’s website is down?
It’s not just Lemmy. The whole world is being flooded by ever increasing quantities of shit, and filtering through it efficiently is decreasingly easy.
We believe the class of safeguards in use today sufficiently reduce cyber risk enough to support broad deployment of current models
Bahahaha, are they serious? It’s trivial to jailbreak any production LLM
Shocked we haven’t got Wisconsin in on this yet
This is what happens when you refuse to think for yourself and just rely on a TV personality to tell you what to believe.
Religion in general has conditioned Americans to operate this way.
NASA literally invented single crystal solar cells. If we didn’t have that, we’d have even less hope of beating the climate crisis.
There’s nothing wrong with doing things that are (legitimately) great for America. I’d love to do things that are great for Russia and Israel too… but it’s unlikely that the leadership in those countries would consider them “great” actions.
It’s a finger under heavy magnification, if you’re not joking.
If you are, it’s because they wanted to demonstrate how e-fish-ient their new technology is.
Haha that picture shows one on a finger. It’s literally half the size of a single ridge of your fingerprint. Like a speck of dust.
The robot’s electrokinetic propulsion exploits microscale physics. Platinum electrodes drive fluid flow with no moving parts at around 60 nanoamperes. Four electrodes enable translation, rotation, and arcing. They currently operate at 1 volt, but could reach 10 times faster speeds near water’s electrolysis limit.
Electric field propulsion, apparently
I always assumed nanoscale robots would need to be lithography-based. Seems that was right. On the other hand, I assumed a MEMS actuator… their solid state propulsion is very interesting.
You don’t become MAGA by being able to draw a line between cause and effect
Presumably they’re afraid of getting shot by his brownshirts
I think they must be pushing back on the term “extortion” in the title, when it’s really “harassment“. I don’t think they implied that it’s fine, just that the title was not representative of the actual story.