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Unless you want to flip straight to solipsism, I'd say perception of some kind is a requirement for consciousness. This is my human-consciousness bias coming through, but I can't fathom anything gaining consciousness and self-awareness without having something other than itself to relate to. Without Other, how can you have Self?
A question about chemical balances is, can it be modeled by something more or less binary? The brain isn't anything near binary - neurons have multiple inputs and outputs with varying levels of stimulation coming and going out, but would it be possible to sum it up with binary logic? Or would it be too complex to simulate?
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