What If Consciousness Comes First?

Re:What If Consciousness Comes First? by jonny_eh on Wednesday July 24, 2019 @05:31PM (#20519973)

Good job proving the parent's point. This line of reasoning is such a waste of everyone's time.

Just because it's hard to define the lines between inorganic life, simple life, and sentient life, it doesn't mean there's no distinction.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Continuum_fallacy

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Re:What If Consciousness Comes First? by 50656E6973 on Wednesday July 24, 2019 @06:09PM (#20520435)

Why did you interpet what I said as meaning there is no distinction between different forms of matter/life?

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Re:What If Consciousness Comes First? by vorg on Wednesday July 24, 2019 @09:16PM (#20521786)

> inorganic life, simple life, and sentient life

... and prescient life. Don't forget the next stage on from sentience. The line between sentience and prescience also seems blurred, given how many humans nowadays report having flashes of the future.

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Re:What If Consciousness Comes First? by malka on Friday July 26, 2019 @03:19AM (#20532974)

We usually call it "imagination". Not always exact though

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Re:What If Consciousness Comes First? by arthurcolle on Thursday July 25, 2019 @10:26AM (#20525607)

Um... what?

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