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Consciousness and responsiveness are orthogonal. Your dictionary would define the locked-in victims of apparently vegetative states as nonconscious. They are no
by Jeff_Brown 4y ago
Consciousness and responsiveness are orthogonal. Your dictionary would define the locked-in victims of apparently vegetative states as nonconscious. They are not.
Common sense is valuable, but it has a mixed scientific track record.
- coldtea 4y ago>Your dictionary would define the locked-in victims of apparently vegetative states as nonconscious You can always find small exceptions to everything. But you know what I mean. Except if your point is that, like the vegetative victims, the rock's brain is still alive.
- scubakid 4y agoAckchyually, this is bigoted against all the electrons inside that rock. Subatomic particles deserve rights too! /s
- nottaRealname 4y agoAny definition for anything is tautologically true if you ignore exceptions