How do you know there is a difference between a conscious being and a glass of water? I'm not saying the glass of water is conscious. Let's say it isn't. What tells you that an animal is any different?
My point is simply that "feeling" already assumes consciousness. Maybe everything is conscious. Still, saying "it's just a feeling" explains nothing. Most people assume that glasses of water are not conscious, so I just used that example to illustrate my point. But you make a valid remark.
But, I think Descartes is straight up wrong here. He doesn't doubt, he believes that he doubts. Descartes never got away from his evil demon - it simply blinded him. He didn't take radical skepticism far enough and if he did he would realize that the Cogito is not good enough for a proof of ontology!
The universe of the evil skepticism demon is as follows: "There is exactly one truth, that there are no other truths". If you hold that axiom, than how can one unironically conclude that the cogito is a neat proof of ontology? Seems like the philosophical equivalent of "wet pavement causes rain"
You sound certain!
Is that because of some logical deductive series that you can articulate, or is it because of a very strong feeling you have?
I'm curious to understand what you are saying, because I don't feel the same way myself, at least not all the time.
Depending on how you are interepting the other commenter's use of the word "similar" you might be trying to say either:
a) I don't think other people are conscious (a fairly exceptional claim)
or
b) I don't think other people are that similar to me (a fairly unremarkable claim)
I always wondered: If you believe in only "One" - one consciousness, one unity - does that de facto make you a solipsist?
Our brains, which is where we suppose our conciousness originates, is made (most likely) from the same sub-atomic particles inanimate objects are made of.
So is there something more to these inanimate objects? Does a rock has more potential then we are aware of?
I don't know. Funny question to ask though.
Mostly whole atoms (or ions) plus electrons and protons (although the latter could be thought of as the ion of a particular isotope of hydrogen). Being pedantic, we can include photons, too.