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It would be very odd for large mammals to be the only things in universe exhibiting self awareness. Usually when something exists in nature, it's everywhere - g
by cat_plus_plus 3y ago
It would be very odd for large mammals to be the only things in universe exhibiting self awareness. Usually when something exists in nature, it's everywhere - gravity, radiation, nuclear forces. Self awareness is probably just another one of these things. Rock is self aware of being a rock, sun is self aware of being a star, human is self aware of being a human, humanity as a whole is self aware of being humanity.
Now, obviously experiences of being a star are totally different from experiences of being a human and one can not will them/itself into being the other. Things are happening to each according to laws of physics and self awareness is just along for the ride.
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- fragsworth 3y ago> Rock is self aware of being a rock But how did you define the rock? Are you saying every set of particles is self aware of being that set of particles?
- cat_plus_plus 3y agoProbably? At small enough scale there might be elementary particles like there are for other things. We should probably solve quantum gravity before worrying about such details.