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mk  ·  4288 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: What Is It Like to Be a Bat?

I agree that Church's conclusion says nothing about what it would be like to be a cell. However, I do think there is a “cellular experience”, however; just that it is extremely simplistic and unrecognizable by most any measure we can apply to it.





theadvancedapes  ·  4288 days ago  ·  link  ·  

It's possible. I do tend to believe that consciousness is an emergent phenomenon of complexity. At the moment I am biased towards organisms with brains, but I think b_b would probably side with you.

mk  ·  4287 days ago  ·  link  ·  

I think that trying to define what constitutes a brain will bring you over to our side. :)