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That's not unreasonable (a sense in which most people most of the time are not acting or thinking with much consciousness), but it depends what consciousness really is I guess.

jimbocoin 🃏 4mo ago

Categorical questions (“is”) tend to be both vociferously debated and patently unprofitable.

I tend to discount the (unstated) benefit of categorizing a thought process as “consciousness” vs. not.

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waxwing 4mo ago

OK but I don't think this is just a categorization problem, the interesting problem here, for me, is defining consciousness. Particularly because of ethics.

jimbocoin 🃏 4mo ago

I don’t see how ethics requires hard categorization of consciousness. Ethical questions, routinely deal with various levels of consciousness, such as animals, or people with diminished capacity, such as coma patients.

waxwing 4mo ago

Yeah i agree it's not binary.