>There were some of us who thought water itself was conscious
I really want to try LSD now..
I really want to try LSD now..
As for water being conscious, we're 99% water by molecule count, or about 70% by molecular weight, and we're conscious. It seems rather odd to me to think that the main constituent of our bodies wouldn't be taking part in our consciousness. From there it isn't such a far leap to think that there may be something that it is like to "be" water when it isn't part of a human being.
"Yes, eyes are for seeing, but these and all the other purposes in the natural world can be generated by processes that are themselves without purposes and without intelligence. This is hard to understand, but so is the idea that colored objects in the world are composed of atoms that are not themselves colored, and that heat is not made of tiny hot things."
http://www.nytimes.com/2005/08/28/opinion/show-me-the-scienc...