Yeah if I were to translate that into a quantitative prior I suppose it would be that other individuals have roughly 50% of being conscious (I.e. Iām agnostic on if they are or not).
Then I learn about the world. I learn about the importance of certain biological structures for consciousness. I learn that I act in a certain way when in pain and notice other individuals do as well etc. Thatās how I get my posterior that rocks probably arenāt conscious and pigs probably are.
What do you count as āother individualā? Any physical system, including overlapping ones? What about your brain, and your brain but not counting one electron?
Iām a bit confused if Iām supposed to be answering on the basis of my uninformed prior or some slightly informed prior or even my posterior here. Like Iām not sure how much you want me to answer based on my experience of the world.
For an uninformed prior I suppose any individual entity that I can visually see. I see a rock and I think āthat could possibly be consciousā. I donāt lump the rock with another nearby rock and think maybe that ādouble rockā is conscious because they just visually appear to me to be independent entities as they are not really visually connected in any physical way. This obviously does factor in some knowledge of the world so I suppose it isnāt a strict uninformed prior, but I suppose itās about as uninformed as is useful to talk about?
I donāt think that gives you can actual proper quantitative prior, as a probability distribution.
Yeah if I were to translate that into a quantitative prior I suppose it would be that other individuals have roughly 50% of being conscious (I.e. Iām agnostic on if they are or not).
Then I learn about the world. I learn about the importance of certain biological structures for consciousness. I learn that I act in a certain way when in pain and notice other individuals do as well etc. Thatās how I get my posterior that rocks probably arenāt conscious and pigs probably are.
Ok, this makes more sense.
What do you count as āother individualā? Any physical system, including overlapping ones? What about your brain, and your brain but not counting one electron?
Iām a bit confused if Iām supposed to be answering on the basis of my uninformed prior or some slightly informed prior or even my posterior here. Like Iām not sure how much you want me to answer based on my experience of the world.
For an uninformed prior I suppose any individual entity that I can visually see. I see a rock and I think āthat could possibly be consciousā. I donāt lump the rock with another nearby rock and think maybe that ādouble rockā is conscious because they just visually appear to me to be independent entities as they are not really visually connected in any physical way. This obviously does factor in some knowledge of the world so I suppose it isnāt a strict uninformed prior, but I suppose itās about as uninformed as is useful to talk about?