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Are you saying that ie. paralyzed people don't have consciousness?
by mirekrusin 3y ago
Are you saying that ie. paralyzed people don't have consciousness?
- bena 3y agoFirst of all, paralyzed people do have bodies. And sensorimotor functions. Second of all, it wouldn't matter if individually they did or did not. The species does and now our species has developed consciousness. It's part of the package. If you wanted a counterexample, you should look to plant life. There is some discussion on whether or not plant systems have a form on consciousness. But, then again, plants have bodies at the very least.
- mirekrusin 3y agoWhat about people with amputations or missing body parts due to genetics - are they less conscious?
- zhynn 3y agoThere is a spectrum between conscious and unconscious. You could say that under general anesthesia you are a 0/10 on the conscious scale, asleep is 1 or 2, just woken from sleep is maybe 3.... and up to a well rested, well fed, healthy sober adult human near the top of the scale. These are common sense notions of objective consciousness and they are testable and noncontroversial outside of a philosophy argument. Does this make sense as a rebuttal to your reductio argument?
- mirekrusin 3y agoPeople dream under general anesthesia, which is a form of consciousness. I don't think ie. Stephen Hawking was on "lower spectrum of consciousness" either.