Is consciousness a category or a spectrum?
Is consciousness a category or a spectrum?
Xavier Scott
Isaac Cooper
Depends how you mean it. Some animals clearly do have a sort of consciousness. What makes humans special, according to us, is a concept of our own existential temporariness. We know we will one day die, we can consider the past and future in an hypothetical way.
Can animals? We can't ask them. But elephants for example seem to recognize dead brethren and show mourning. Some primates and sea mannals too, maybe.
Camden Sanders
Spectrum. There are human with low and high sentience.
Jacob Flores
How low conscious human even look like? Downies?
Gavin Howard
consciousness doesn't exist.
Brandon Rodriguez
t. Koishi
Ian Brooks
Dogs mourn as well, or at least my step dad's old beagle did when the cat died. She was mopey for a good couple weeks.
James Fisher
Spectrum.
Obviously the deeper into sleep you are the less conscious you become.
Certain bits and pieces of what is referred to consciousness in common parlay are distributed unevenly through the animal kingdom. Things like empathy, theory of mind, proprioception, etc.
I recommend reading António Damásio on this.
Adam Hill
No, just people without self-awareness, not self-conscious, no shame,... usually goes hand in hand with primitive phenotypes, low-class people with bad or overly permissive upbringing, and is accompanied with low inhibition,...
Logan Young
Consciousness is pure, undefiled, eternal.
It is our habitual clinging and ignorance that keeps up living in sleep-consciousness.
Shed your karma and you will experience non-abiding illumination, free from any and all taints.