Absolutely they could with my frame of thought. I like to think the best way to view the world is a world without humans. This, to me, is an easier way of think

Absolutely they could with my frame of thought. I like to think the best way to view the world is a world without humans. This, to me, is an easier way of thinking than attempting to place myself in the views of the thing I want to think about. Moss enjoy the simple things in life, while rocks enjoy even simpler things. To me, these things cannot experience happiness - happiness is a human emotion that requires a memory of the past. Maybe a piece of moss 'remembers' the sun when the sun hasn't shined in a week. When the sun comes out again, it will be energized and start to grow. This would be the 'happiness' in a moss' life. A rock lays dormant until it can find a point of lowest energy to fall to, in which case it does. I think that's all there is to say about rocks though, because they don't seem to do much else. But what about rocks before? They came from lava, maybe they were spewn from a volcano, hurled hundreds of feet in the air before landing and solidifying. To me, if I were a piece of rock, I would prefer flying through the air (maybe when people throw rocks, they allow the rock to relive its previous life as a hunk of lava). There are a couple things that you may run into trouble with when thinking about experience - humans have an innate sense of time that we base things off of. We have a certain number of experiences in a day, and that's the time frame of our experiences. What if experiences could be drawn out over hundreds, thousands, millions of years? What if suns experienced things on the time frame of hundreds of millions of years, what kind of experiences would be possible? One (of many) more things to ponder that's inline with this type of thought - the effects of networks on consciousness. Because I have a consciousness, does that make every cell in my body conscious? If every cell is conscious, does that make every organelle? Does that make every strand of DNA? Does that make every atom in my body conscious? I would like to say no, the whole is greater than the sum of the parts, and because of the configuration of things in my body, I have been allowed access to a consciousness. Maybe a moss can never experience anything, but moss is just a component of a forest. Maybe a forest could? Or are forests at the level of cells? Maybe an ecosystem could experience something? A rock was likely once a piece of a boulder, can a boulder experience? What about sand, the rock's likely next change in configuration? What about a mountain, where boulders come from? What changes when we step up levels of complexity? (sorry for the randomness of this, I write as the questions pop into my head - where do those questions come from?)