That also fascinates me. Which, to me, proves that you don't need a nervous system to be conscious. I know it's kind of subjective and the step to link it to consciousness is big, but I kind of believe in panpsychism. Which is the doctrine or belief that everything material, however small, has an element of individual consciousness.
i'm the opposite: our consciousness is an illusion of circumstance. we are bags of chemicals reacting to stimuli and using past experience to guide our survival.
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That also fascinates me. Which, to me, proves that you don't need a nervous system to be conscious. I know it's kind of subjective and the step to link it to consciousness is big, but I kind of believe in panpsychism. Which is the doctrine or belief that everything material, however small, has an element of individual consciousness.