(July 15, 2024 at 9:08 pm)soulcalm17 Wrote: About consciousness, why scientist not tried to put a camera in the womb of some animal, let's say elephant, and see how the consciousness happened for the first time in her baby?
Because consciousness doesn't show up on a camera? Seriously, why would you even try that?
Also, consciousness develops gradually. There's no instant during development in which an organism suddenly goes from insensate to fully aware. The process continues well after birth for humans and is the reason that newborns are largely screaming balls of instinct and passingly poor at holding lengthy discussions of a philosophical nature.
It is much simpler to take a fully conscious subject, pop them into an MRI imager or an EEG, and render them unconscious with an anaesthetic. Did it never occur to you to wonder how something that you think came from god can be taken away by nothing more than some simple chemicals? For that matter, you can take it away by very simple physical means (e.g.: a baseball bat to the head) but that risks permanent damage.
