{"id":61,"date":"2021-10-27T00:41:03","date_gmt":"2021-10-27T07:41:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/qpr.ca\/blogs\/constream\/?page_id=61"},"modified":"2021-10-27T00:56:08","modified_gmt":"2021-10-27T07:56:08","slug":"measure-of-consciousness","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/qpr.ca\/blogs\/constream\/a-stream-on-consciousness\/measure-of-consciousness\/","title":{"rendered":"A Measure of Consciousness"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>It may seem that<em> consciousness<\/em> is a discrete property such that either you have it or you don&#8217;t. But I think it plausible that there may nonetheless be a fairly well defined measure of\u00a0consciousness\u00a0which has values on a continuum. And if I were looking to find such a measure I would probably start by considering the amount of information that the entity is capable of storing in a way that influences its future behaviour. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Philosopher\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.faculty.ucr.edu\/~eschwitz\/\">Eric Schwitzgebel<\/a>\u00a0has written a paper:\u00a0<em><a href=\"http:\/\/faculty.ucr.edu\/~eschwitz\/SchwitzAbs\/BorderlineConsciousness.htm\">Borderline Consciousness, When It\u2019s Neither Determinately True nor Determinately False That Experience Is Present<\/a><\/em>\u00a0that I think is interesting but perhaps somewhat over-plays the idea of \u201cvagueness\u201d as if something different from merely being a quantity that does in fact have a continuum of values. We don\u2019t talk of position or temperature as \u201cvague\u201d even though we often use vague language like \u201chot\u201d and \u201ccold\u201d to describe them. Similarly, I suspect that <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It may seem that consciousness is a discrete property such that either you have it or you don&#8217;t. But I think it plausible that there may nonetheless be a fairly well defined measure of\u00a0consciousness\u00a0which has values on a continuum. And if I were looking to find such a measure I would probably start by considering &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/qpr.ca\/blogs\/constream\/a-stream-on-consciousness\/measure-of-consciousness\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">A Measure of Consciousness<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":21,"menu_order":3,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-61","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/qpr.ca\/blogs\/constream\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/61","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/qpr.ca\/blogs\/constream\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/qpr.ca\/blogs\/constream\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qpr.ca\/blogs\/constream\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qpr.ca\/blogs\/constream\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=61"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/qpr.ca\/blogs\/constream\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/61\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":63,"href":"https:\/\/qpr.ca\/blogs\/constream\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/61\/revisions\/63"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qpr.ca\/blogs\/constream\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/21"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/qpr.ca\/blogs\/constream\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=61"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qpr.ca\/blogs\/constream\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=61"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qpr.ca\/blogs\/constream\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=61"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}