Re:How Did Consciousness Evolve? (2016)
by srtjstjsj on Sunday September 27, 2020 @01:05PM
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> To be clear, when I say "closer to a sub-atomic particle's consciousness", I mean "not conscious at all".
How could that be what you meant? You laid out 2 options, and your corrected option 2 is the same as your option 1.
> How could that be what you meant? You laid out 2 options, and your corrected option 2 is the same as your option 1.
I don't get what you're saying. My "corrected" option 2 means that consciousness is a spectrum, that consciousness is not a binary property. A human is more conscious than a chicken, which is more conscious than an insect, which is more conscious than a bacterium, which is not conscious at all.
Re:How Did Consciousness Evolve? (2016)
by wombatmobile on Sunday September 27, 2020 @03:10PM
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I don’t think the topic being discussed here is “consciousness”. Rather it is how similar an other organism seems to humans, from the point of view of a human.
The more human something looks, the more plausible it seems that the being may be conscious.
But this begs the question of what consciousness is, and is not a scientific approach.
To be clear, when I say "closer to a sub-atomic particle's consciousness", I mean "not conscious at all". Hmm, I admit, that sentence could be misunderstood. Sorry, that was my fault.