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You're drawing arbitrary cutoffs in your height example. Which brings back the original question, what's your selection criteria for consciousness?

• lisper 9y ago
  No, they are not arbitrary cutoffs. They are universally agreed upon conventions among speakers of English, and they give effective meaning to the words "short" and "tall". Quibbling over that is pure pedantry.
  • ph4 9y ago
    Convention = arbitary. It's conventional. For convenience. Relative. Not absolute. Same as your lines defining what is and isn't conscious.
    • lisper 9y ago
      http://calteches.library.caltech.edu/569/2/Stoppard.pdf http://calteches.library.caltech.edu/569/2/Stoppard.pdf