“Evidence” about consciousness is always a red flag. The whole point of consciousness is that we observe ours (that is all we observe, by the way) and postulate that of others. At the end the fundamental intuition about consciousness is that you need neural complexity (information integration) and insects has a modest number of nodes in their neural network.
“The (Darwinian) reinforcement learning process that has led to our behavior imply strong rewards and penalties and being products of the same process (animal kingdom evolution), external similarity is inevitable. But to turn the penalty in the utility function of a neural network into pain you need the neural network to produce a conscious self. Pain is penalty to a conscious self. Philosophers know that philosophical zombies are conceivable, and external similarity is far from enough to guarantee noumenal equivalence.”
“Evidence” about consciousness is always a red flag. The whole point of consciousness is that we observe ours (that is all we observe, by the way) and postulate that of others. At the end the fundamental intuition about consciousness is that you need neural complexity (information integration) and insects has a modest number of nodes in their neural network.
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/3FEz94Hs5dEsgRJYg/arthropod-non-sentience
“The (Darwinian) reinforcement learning process that has led to our behavior imply strong rewards and penalties and being products of the same process (animal kingdom evolution), external similarity is inevitable. But to turn the penalty in the utility function of a neural network into pain you need the neural network to produce a conscious self. Pain is penalty to a conscious self. Philosophers know that philosophical zombies are conceivable, and external similarity is far from enough to guarantee noumenal equivalence.”