Like I said, we don't even know what consciousness is. To say there is a platonic consciousness is kind of saying you know what that looks like. And to say tha

Like I said, we don't even know what consciousness is. To say there is a platonic consciousness is kind of saying you know what that looks like. And to say that you could grant something an intelligence capable of solving the problem of colonizing the stars while also denying it the ability to choose its own goals is an assumption I'm not willing to grant. In other words, there is "a reason to think this!" We are that reason. Other life on this planet is reason to think this.