The problem with the escaping the lion model for defining consciousness is it puts us way down on the evolutionary scale. While we have the audacity to call other mammals on this planet lower life forms, they can detest the lion long before we do. Think of the tsunami that hit India. All those thousands of people died, but among them they did not find the body of one animals. Even the birds “knew” enough to fly backwards to escape the coming water. While the humans were oblivious to it until it was right on them. To save human dignity we could argue that the animals were acting on instinct, not consciousness. Whatever it still proved far superior for escaping the lion.
The god who allows children to be raped out of respect for the free will choice of the rapist, but punishes gay men for engaging in mutually consensual sex couldn't possibly be responsible for an intelligently designed universe.
I may defend your right to free speech, but i won't help you pass out flyers.
Those who can make you believe absurdities, can make you commit atrocities.
--Voltaire
Nietzsche isn't dead. How do I know he lives? He lives in my mind.
I may defend your right to free speech, but i won't help you pass out flyers.
Those who can make you believe absurdities, can make you commit atrocities.
--Voltaire
Nietzsche isn't dead. How do I know he lives? He lives in my mind.
