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A 'Third State' Exists Between Life and Death—And That Suggests Your Cells Are Conscious, Some Scientists Say
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all you have to do is water down what 'consiousness' is and boom individual cells are conscious. why stop there, lets get down to conscious molecules whynot.
pffft. what a dogshit premise.
This is basically the idea behind Integrated Information Theory, where even quantum particles have some nominal amount of “consciousness” because they interact with and affect their environment.