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[–] [email protected] 10 points 17 hours ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 14 hours ago

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.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 17 hours ago

Popular Mechanics. Enough said.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 16 hours ago

I need to start reading headlines backwards or some shit. I hate this trend of "journalists" rearranging and removing words in headlines.