(November 28, 2018 at 8:15 pm)Everena Wrote:(November 28, 2018 at 1:20 pm)Paleophyte Wrote: No they aren't and you're wrong again. Most animals are not conscious, so the distance there is zero.
Sponges, jellyfish, barnacles, sea cucumbers... There are birds that will gleefully beat their brains out attacking their reflection. The list of conscious animals would be a damned sight shorter.
The fact that consciousness is difficult to define means that it's a lousy criteria for classification, which is why nobody uses it. If you use poorly defined criteria then all of your classifications reduce to mere opinions.
All of those animals are conscious except perhaps sponges (that are basically plants too- yeah I said it). What exactly makes someone like you think they aren't?
By what definition of the term is a barnacle conscious?