Timeline for Why do we say that some animals have consciousness and some don't?
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| Feb 17, 2016 at 1:23 | comment | added | K A | You'd have to back up the claim that elementary particles are aware and make choices. If that is true then your argument makes sense. If it's not then your argument is hooey. | |
| Feb 16, 2016 at 23:58 | comment | added | user9634 | I said sensitive, not conscious. All things, even elementary particles, respond to their environment and make choices. Awareness comes with the ability to form memories, the recall of which would influence choices. With self-awareness comes consciousness. Beyond that comes nonduality. Why is this hard for people to cognize and accept? | |
| Feb 16, 2016 at 17:55 | comment | added | K A | TIL computers are conscious | |
| Feb 16, 2016 at 13:40 | comment | added | user9634 | One time I was writing an angry email to my manager (I was not angry at him, I was just expressing myself) and my computer crashed 3 times while I was writing it and twice while sending it. He later wrote to me (he was working from home and had not read my message yet) saying that his computer had crashed repeatedly while attempting to receive email and when he tried to open my message (not other peoples' messages). I apologized later. Normally, our computers never crashed, let alone several times in a day! This has not happened to me again in the intervening 20 years. Computers are sensitive. | |
| Feb 14, 2016 at 3:30 | comment | added | K A | Sometimes it feels like my computer is actively plotting against me, but then I come back to my senses. My computer was probably not conscious during that short time I was believing that it was. | |
| Feb 14, 2016 at 2:30 | comment | added | user9634 | Right, but all they have to do is prove it to themselves. Then look at you and do the Duck Test: if you walk like a conscious being (oneself) and talk like one, the most reasonable explanation is that you are one. Why is this so hard for people to take on? Realistically, we cannot prove anything that our senses present: it is all just an assumption. So, assume away! As long as it works out well, it is probably correct! | |
| Feb 14, 2016 at 2:24 | comment | added | K A | I can't prove it to anyone else | |
| Feb 14, 2016 at 2:23 | comment | added | user9634 | You can't doubt your own consciousness. | |
| Feb 12, 2016 at 19:58 | history | answered | K A | CC BY-SA 3.0 |