When it comes to autonomous AI-based weapons, "the public needs to understand that the stakes are very different now and that we have to sit down and talk about everything on a case by case basis from a strategic deterrence perspective" - @DrSueSchneider open.spotify.com/episode/397…

Consciousness is closely associated with the "limited capacity" aspects of the brain. Limited capacity mechanisms include immediate memory, the selectivity of attention, and the fact that we cannot do two demanding voluntary actions at the same time.

Consciousness is a fundamental concept, like mass and energy, entropy and life. People call it "perception" or "attention" or even "knowledge." Those terms capture part of the truth, but they are by no means the whole network of empirically anchored concepts.