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>There were some of us who thought water itself was conscious I really want to try LSD now..

• CuriouslyC 9y ago
  Absolutely. Going throughout life without a breakthrough psychedelic experience is like going throughout life without having been in love. As for water being conscious, we're 99% water by molecule count, or about 70% by molecular weight, and we're conscious. It seems rather odd to me to think that the main constituent of our bodies wouldn't be taking part in our consciousness. From there it isn't such a far leap to think that there may be something that it is like to "be" water when it isn't part of a human being.
  • maroonblazer 9y ago
    Quoting Dan Dennett: "Yes, eyes are for seeing, but these and all the other purposes in the natural world can be generated by processes that are themselves without purposes and without intelligence. This is hard to understand, but so is the idea that colored objects in the world are composed of atoms that are not themselves colored, and that heat is not made of tiny hot things." http://www.nytimes.com/2005/08/28/opinion/show-me-the-science.html http://www.nytimes.com/2005/08/28/opinion/show-me-the-scienc...
    • CuriouslyC 9y ago
      The emergent theory of consciousness is the gordian knot of modern thinking. The people espousing it basically don't understand emergence, which explains their willingness to attribute magical powers to it.
  • sullyj3 9y ago
    The boundary of one's body seems like an arbitrary place to draw the line. Why not say that a sphere of radius 5 meters contains your consciousness? Then the air can be conscious too!