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What if consciousness is a spectrum, not an on/off state? Why wouldn’t AI be conscious in some form?

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I have been thinking a lot about theories of consciousness lately, and one idea that makes intuitive sense to me is that "the amount of active, interconnected complexity within a given physical space may determine the level of consciousness." I don't think something is simply either "conscious" or…

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  1. 2026-09-17 13:26 · r/singularity
    What if consciousness is a spectrum, not an on/off state? Why wouldn’t AI be conscious in some form?

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