RE: [Quranic Reflection] Animals are communities like us
May 8, 2019 at 1:34 am
(This post was last modified: May 8, 2019 at 1:53 am by WinterHold.)
(May 7, 2019 at 10:40 pm)wyzas Wrote: I think for this to work you need to narrow your definition of "animal". Not sure if your proposition works for sea anemone's or tapeworms. And you then run into the issue of defining "consciousness".
The consciousness is coming from the brain. Disagreeing on its definition does not change its main attribute: "we are here; we exist".
Quote:An ant brain has about 250 000 brain cells. A human brain has 10,000 million so a colony of 40,000 ants has collectively the same size brain as a human.
https://lingolex.com/ants.htm
A single human though has about 10,000 million brain cells while a single ant has 250,000 brain cells only.
I think if something has no brain; they won't have consciousness.
We, humans are having a harder time with the concept of God for example because we have lots of brain cells; so we think more. Animals have lesser number; so they don't bother much like us, to them life is very simple. A lion has no enough brain cells to question your political affiliation before eating you, but a dog might have just enough brain cells to remember your smell and your voice.
