(August 24, 2015 at 5:02 pm)Rhythm Wrote: Go dig one up and see what it does. Just as you don't actually have to understand -how- a telephone works in order to determine that it -does- work, you don't have to understand -how- a worms (or any) consciousness works to see that it -does- work.
Now I see why Harris wants to define consciousness. Rhythm obviously doesn't define it the way I do.
An earthworm is autonomous. It responds to stimuli. But does it have an awareness that it even exists? I have a hard time seeing how given that its brain is extremely simple as brains go. Scientists have mapped the entire thing. It's considerably less complex than my computer's CPU.
Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former.
Albert Einstein
Albert Einstein