Axel E Casas
@axelcasas.bsky.social
PhD Student - Social Cognition in Birds - RUB 🇩🇪 - DAAD
Trying to understand minds 🧠 and other worlds 🐙 | Naturalist 🍀 | Pythonista 🐍
Trying to understand minds 🧠 and other worlds 🐙 | Naturalist 🍀 | Pythonista 🐍
Can only “meat“ machines be conscious?
Interesting paper by Ned Block discussing the role of living systems in generating consciousness. So, electrochemical nervous systems characterized in animals may be a requisite, yet not sufficient, for consciousness.
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Interesting paper by Ned Block discussing the role of living systems in generating consciousness. So, electrochemical nervous systems characterized in animals may be a requisite, yet not sufficient, for consciousness.
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Can only meat machines be conscious?
Computational functionalism claims that executing certain computations is sufficient for consciousness, regardless of the physical mechanisms implemen…
www.sciencedirect.com
December 28, 2025 at 7:48 PM
Can only “meat“ machines be conscious?
Interesting paper by Ned Block discussing the role of living systems in generating consciousness. So, electrochemical nervous systems characterized in animals may be a requisite, yet not sufficient, for consciousness.
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Interesting paper by Ned Block discussing the role of living systems in generating consciousness. So, electrochemical nervous systems characterized in animals may be a requisite, yet not sufficient, for consciousness.
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...