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goodguy's avatar

Another wonderful piece.

Your point could even apply to some organic, let's go with semi-sentient, mimics.

For instance, I (S2) could recite your piece (S1) word for word. Yet, it's meaning and the ability to create it (F) are far beyond me.

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Derek Beyer's avatar

This makes me wonder if babies count as consciousness mimics. For a long time, they’re engaged in mimicry that doesn’t understand the underlying meaning of their actions. Ironically, that makes the idea of emergent consciousness from mimicry seem *more* plausible to me.

Perhaps combining this with some Douglas Hofstadter loopiness? Maybe my mind is a conceptual network that uses previous thoughts as prompts to “predict and generate” my next thought.

I hope this is vaguely coherent. I’m probably out of my depth.

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