/sci/ - Science & Math

>>5220914
>>5220930

I don't care if they know anything about climate change but jesus mighty lord:

heckler: "BLURGH CLIMATE CHANGE BLURGH"
crowd: BOO, BOO, BOO
crowd: USA! USA! USA! USA! USA! USA!
crowd: USA! USA! USA! USA! USA! USA!
crowd: USA! USA! USA! USA! USA! USA!

>americlaps

Suddenly, the news headlines went from
>16 year-old German genius
to
>16 year-old boy of Indian immigrant parents

>>4723499
Everytime.

>>4430832

> Aware of one's own existence, sensations, thoughts, surroundings, etc.

By your definition my iPhone is self-conscious:

1. It self-identifies with IP address, MAC address, product serial-number and iTunes name.
2. It has sensory perception: a microphone, a camera, a touchscreen, internal gyroscopes as vastibular system, GPS for spacial recognition, and WiFi and Bluetooth electro-magnetic communication capabilities.
3. It runs background processes, whose output is accessible to the working memory, allowing it to incorporate and assimilate it into it's calculations and monitoring modules.
4. It stores information and data previously acquired on its memory, and can communicate it to other devices, whose comm. language it shares.

- Thanks, imma treat my iPhone better in the future, seeing how it's sentient and all.

But of course this is a ridiculous statement, that my handheld is self-aware; just as (by your definition) it's ridiculous to declare humans as self-aware.

mfw you're captivated by the romantic vagueness of the pre-neuroscience era.

>>4178170

>>4105488
> and they walk on land THEY WALK ON LAND

Lol'd heartily.

>can think in 4 and 5 dimensions