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I thought the most fascinating thing (mostly because I hadn't considered it, despite having 2 kids) was that babies aren't conscious at birth or even, optimisti
by hopeless 14y ago
I thought the most fascinating thing (mostly because I hadn't considered it, despite having 2 kids) was that babies aren't conscious at birth or even, optimistically, before 2-5months.
That's kinda neat.
- cristianpascu 14y agoConsciousness and self-consciousness are two different things, I think. A baby in the womb of their mother will hear and learn to recognize mother's voice. That's a good sign of consciousness. The physicalist view on consciousness tends to put everything we do on the basis of 'mechanic' impuse-reaction phenomena in our brain. But, so far, in no way explains very much of what living organisms do, I mean those that show conscious interaction with the environment, animals and humans alike.