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A person without consciousness would be more strange than a person with consciousness, despite consciousness being something we don't understand.

• hypertele-Xii 5y ago
  A person awake and conscious is, in my opinion, generally much stranger in its behavior than one who is unconscious. Unconscious persons generally just... lie there. Not all that strange, considering most stuff on Earth does that.
  • nmilo 5y ago
    If you walked into a store and the cashier was unconscious, would that not be stranger than if the cashier was conscious?
    • jayd16 5y ago
      It's the manager who's strange for promoting an unconscious person to cashier.
      • gmfawcett 5y ago
        It's unconscious people all the way down.
• denton-scratch 5y ago
  Well, a person without consciousness might behave exactly the same as one who was self-aware; all the same processes might occur, but the individual just wouldn't have self-awareness. As it is, it seems that conscious "acts of volition" really follow the initiation of action, rather than preceding it. It's as if we are automata or robots, with something weird called consciousness layered on top. I have no idea whether this is a true representation of how things are, or some kind of artifact.