CF Debate

Embodiment Requirements

SubstrateBehavioural

Overview

Consciousness might require various embodied, embedded, enactive and extended aspects of brain-body-world interactions

Responses

  1. Extend the CF algorithm to require such interactions, e.g. by being placed in a robot.

  2. Reject the claim that any embodiment features are necessary for consciousness (or place the burden of proof on CF critics to demonstrate the claim).

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