Evolution

[polymath257]

We may be reasoning in circles here. Doesn't sensation in one regard: feeling/perception necessarily involve consciousness of some sort? But in another regard, a sense organ is no different than that coil on the thermostat-- ASIDE FROM the fact that a sense organ is plugged into a central processing unit.

Hmmmmmmmm.....

OK, so is a thermostat that is connected to a central processor that 'evaluates' temperature and 'reacts' to it by changing the furnace a form of conscious system?

And what precise value does the CPU have? Isn't it just another stage of processing? So doesn't the processing the thermostat itself do qualify? Especially if that coil in the thermostat opens or closes a circuit for the furnace?