On 2/23/2018 3:37 AM, Bruno Marchal wrote:
Normally an amoeba is indeed more conscious than a spider, which is more conscious than us, but plausibly less conscious of their environment. The price of that higher consciousness is that it is of the dissociative kind of consciousness.However though perhaps a spider may exist in a less filtered internal state of being than a mouse, I don't see how it is more conscious. Is an amoeba even more conscious then than a spider. Is the simplest most elementary particle the most conscious entity of all?Particles are not conscious in the sense that particles have no brain at all, and actually, does not exist at all.
So your theory leads us to conclude that consciousness is maximized somewhere between no neurons, even no structure at all, and the neural equipment of a spider. Perhaps a pebble?
I find it disingenous that you talk of testing your theory by comparing with experience and quantum mechanics and finding it agrees over a tiny part of their domain and this is confirmation. But when your theory leads to an absurdity you obfuscate the fact with mysticism and redefining consciousness as an illusion...although in other contexts you note it is the only thing we can be sure of.
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