As with the psychic cousin, this particular rule doesn’t seem to forbid it outright (at least not in the obvious way). But a node thrown in with only one link to the rest of the universe still seems suspicious. It smells of an ad hoc hypothesis even before we ask if it means “consciousness” in the usual sense.
As with the psychic cousin, this particular rule doesn’t seem to forbid it outright (at least not in the obvious way). But a node thrown in with only one link to the rest of the universe still seems suspicious. It smells of an ad hoc hypothesis even before we ask if it means “consciousness” in the usual sense.
(For this one I only saw Emile’s comment.)