Biological Journal of the Linnean Society

What is consciousness? Artificial intelligence, real intelligence, quantum mind and qualia

Biological Journal of the Linnean Society August 24, 2022 Stuart Kauffman, Andrea Roli 52 citations

Abstract We approach the question ‘What is consciousness?’ in a new way, not as Descartes’ ‘systematic doubt’, but as how organisms find their way in their world. Finding one’s way involves finding possible uses of features of the world that might be beneficial or avoiding those that might be harmful. ‘Possible uses of X to accomplish Y’ are ‘affordances’. The number of uses of X is indefinite...