The title of the article is "LeCun's 2022 paper on autonomous machine intelligence rehashes but does not cite essential work of 1990-2015" but had to be shortened to fit the character limit of Hacker News titles.
No. There are various different schools of thought on consciousness, including some that posit consciousness as a fundamental constituent of the universe - far below the domain of insects.
A "basic understanding" of consciousness - in the sense of being generally accepted across the scientific base - did not exist then, and does not exist now.
> No. There are various different schools of thought on consciousness, including some that posit consciousness as a fundamental constituent of the universe - far below the domain of insects.
There are various attempts to attract subscription to various definitions of "consciousness", but no agreement at all. Are rocks conscious? Bugs? Crows? People driving to work? Anyone? Ferris?
This seems like a better attempt than average, even if only because the others are so abysmal.
Full title (before shortening to <= 80 characters): "China again blocks Wikimedia Foundation’s accreditation to World Intellectual Property Organization"
The title should be "How different masks protect against Covid-19, and its delta and lambda variants" but for some reason the "How" got auto-cutoff by the HN submission system for some reason...
