That does raise the question of where group consciousness ends though:
* Is my immune system conscious?
* Is my family conscious?
* Is my community conscious?
* Is my country conscious?
* Is the universe conscious?
* Is my immune system conscious?
* Is my family conscious?
* Is my community conscious?
* Is my country conscious?
* Is the universe conscious?
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.
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?