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To: one_less who wrote (79972)	5/25/2000 3:17:00 PM
From: epicure	Respond to of 108807

I don't presume to quantify consciousness- not for people, not for plants, not for protozoa. Anything that is alive seems likely to be conscious- imo. Even some things that are not alive as we understand life- such as machines- could have consciousness. Neocon is the one drawing distinctions between animals and humans. Since humans are animals I see no such distinctions. And I wouldn't draw a distinction between plants either- I would merely suspect they have a different type of consciousness. Of course I don't mean plants have higher reasoning functions. Heck, not even all people have that, I'm merely saying that what lives has some sense of it's aliveness or living things wouldn't try so hard to continue to live. That sense of aliveness is part of consciousness. We humans have simply refined it to self consciousness (imo).