
Originally Posted by
FourPart
Perhaps that's just it. Conciousness is preprogrammed as part of the existence of life, and as all life has a common ancestor there is no reason to believe that all life doesn't posess some degree of conciousness. After all, it has been proven that plants communicate with others to warn of predators. Animals give out warning signs to others in their groups, thus working toward the common good. For instance, when a rabbit encounters danger it thumps its foot on the ground. There is no possible selfish reason for it to do this, as it's not going to benefit him in any way. It merely warns others. An instinctive conciousness of the group. To what degree of conciousness there is is an entirely different matter. At what point do you define something as being self aware? As previously demonstrated, Koko the gorilla communicated through sign language & would refer to herself in the 1st party and others in the 2nd & 3rd parties. There is no doubt that this is definitely conciousness of self awareness, but then comes the question of asking the bigger question of where we came from. Is that a matter of self awareness, or is it simply that they don't care?
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