(October 28, 2012 at 12:17 pm)MysticKnight Wrote:(October 28, 2012 at 11:12 am)Stimbo Wrote: Or semi-conscious, to varying degrees. Consciousness isn't an all-or-nothing condition.
Whatever degree of consciousness, semi, 1%, whatever...there has to be a step that would go from no consciousness. But at the same time, there needs not only be tons of steps but natural selection should be guiding it towards consciousness (semi or 1% or any level of consciousness).
Can you point to the exact moment when the baby you turned into an infant? There must have been one.
At the age of five, Skagra decided emphatically that God did not exist. This revelation tends to make most people in the universe who have it react in one of two ways - with relief or with despair. Only Skagra responded to it by thinking, 'Wait a second. That means there's a situation vacant.'