> What if each person on earth simulated one neuron in your brain, communicating by passing little slips of paper around?
I do think this kind of group consciousness or meta consciousness exists, on many layers even. That's how society works.
I do think this kind of group consciousness or meta consciousness exists, on many layers even. That's how society works.
Do you draw your shell around your children?
What about your group identity such as your neighborhood, town, sports team, or country.
Can you draw this shell around abstract ideas that you consider core to your being?
Where you draw that shell might change your level of empathy for other people.
* Is my immune system conscious?
* Is my family conscious?
* Is my community conscious?
* Is my country conscious?
* Is the universe conscious?
Consciousness is not a well defined concept. Any line you draw between conscious and non-conscious is arbitrary. So where do you want to draw the line?
What's all this RNA doing in here? Why am I making so many of these stupid spiky things? Dammit, now I've got to clean up this mess.
3 weeks later: What the fuck, not this shit again.
We're just bigger ants, is all.