Almost everything is “alive” or “conscious” because the only interesting property that separates things that are “alive” or “dead” is whether or not they contain feedback processes (that, as a consequence, generate information and locally reduce entropy while globally increasing it).
Do you use a separate word for the subjective experience of thought and perception?
“myself” could be that word. I have no evidence of any other subjective experiences. Alternately, you may not need a separate word—everything experiences things, perhaps as some function of the complexity of feedback mechanism.
Almost everything is “alive” or “conscious” because the only interesting property that separates things that are “alive” or “dead” is whether or not they contain feedback processes (that, as a consequence, generate information and locally reduce entropy while globally increasing it).
Do you use a separate word for the subjective experience of thought and perception?
“myself” could be that word. I have no evidence of any other subjective experiences. Alternately, you may not need a separate word—everything experiences things, perhaps as some function of the complexity of feedback mechanism.