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Comment author: AlephNeil 16 May 2010 10:38:14AM *  4 points [-]

Yeah but come on... you always-a-fact-of-the-matter-ists have some startling things to think about too, like The Exact Moment When You First Became Conscious, and the Infinitely Precise Line one can draw across the phylogenetic tree demarcating species whose members are (or may be) conscious and those which never are.

(Afterthought: Or are you some kind of panpsychist? Then your startling possibilities incude the minds of rocks...)

Comment author: Mitchell_Porter 16 May 2010 11:10:12AM 0 points [-]

you always-a-fact-of-the-matter-ists have some startling things to think about too, like The Exact Moment When You First Became Conscious, and the Infinitely Precise Line one can draw across the phylogenetic tree demarcating species whose members are (or may be) conscious and those which never are

See, it's not so hard! You just have to take the idea seriously, and stick with it. You might even have a talent for this. And here I was thinking that my labor here was in vain.

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