Closely related, especially given the context of consciousness, one of my favorite stories: "The Egg" (http://www.galactanet.com/oneoff/theegg_mod.html, or if you prefer read by Kurzgesagt: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h6fcK_fRYaI).
Possibly interesting fact: the writer of The Egg also wrote The Martian. Haven't read the book, but the film was great and much funnier than I expected.
My favorite version of this story is told throughout Logic's "Everybody" album. I highly recommend it.
Re:Electrons May Well Be Conscious
by buckminstrix on Monday May 18, 2020 @05:32AM
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Really profound content from a great channel. Another channel with related insightful content is "The School of Life" https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC7IcJI8PUf5Z3zKxnZvTBog
Panpsychism needs a new name. That word sounds quite alien. But the concept is familiar to humans in their "raw" state.
Young children sometimes befriend rocks, elder people sometimes talk to their plants, and some tribes and pre-modern cultures widely believed there was life inside everything. It's a little disappointing the "Wikipedia" article on it does not mention: Australian aborigines, Amazon tribes, Hindus and more.
Re:Electrons May Well Be Conscious
by chaoticmass on Monday May 18, 2020 @10:55AM
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This is similar to my favorite silly theory about dogs. There is only one dog. Every dog you meet is the same dog. Whenever the dog dies, it is re-incarnated as another dog somewhere and somewhen.
It neatly explains what and why is antimatter and why all particles of given kind are exactly the same. Although it's a hard sell because it predicts that all of the matter-antimatter symmetry breaking is not intrinsic or even spontaneous.
Also it make hard to wrap your head around how antimatter could form any macroscopic objects while going back in time. Or how it can behave exactly like matter while going back in time.