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>>When something has enough complexity to be aware of the boundary between "it" and everything else, then we have a being of some kind. Not necessarily. Humans
by kamaal 8y ago
>>When something has enough complexity to be aware of the boundary between "it" and everything else, then we have a being of some kind.
Not necessarily. Humans learn anything through inputs of sight, sound, feeling and smell. Different conscious bodies could have different ways of learning about things around them, and hence a totally different model of reality around them.
They can't tell us anything about their consciousness for the same reasons why we can't talk to stones.
- ddingus 8y agoThat does not change their state of being. How they get the data is a matter of their nature, not whether they are beings. I also did not speak to their state, only what may define actually having one, as opposed to being something simpler, an expression as I put it above. We can get the message of the stone, the stone also is changed by us having done it. It literally is what happens to it. There is that.