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Imagine that every individual cell is conscious, and that consciousness is a binary quality.
by odyssey7 2y ago
Imagine that every individual cell is conscious, and that consciousness is a binary quality.
- ASalazarMX 2y agoImagine that it isn't. What use is imagining something without the slightest shred of evidence?
- odyssey7 2y agoPanpsychism in various forms has historically held sway with many philosophers. It’s really the Occam’s razor for consciousness.
- MattPalmer1086 2y agoOk. So the brain cell is individually conscious. Won't be conscious of much, it has no sense organs. Just lost in its own thoughts?
- namaria 2y agoThat's pretty much how it felt when I experienced an ego death on mushrooms. My sense of self shattered and I could feel that I was emerging from a deep resonance in the consciousness of my cells.
- odyssey7 2y agoPerhaps nerve endings within "sense organs" offer a level of abstraction in propagating information to a consciousness somewhere else. Consider happiness. Possibly a cell feels happy when there's plenty of energy and its cellular processes are working well. Possibly it feels something else leading up to apoptosis.