Consciousness is found in the stem of the brain and we have developed such a consciousness out of the evolutionary necessity to create societal order and cultural progress!
Confound you Locke!
The son of your S.O.N. is the mind behind the democracy of a modern age.
The children of this age are your Senator, Nero, Post Moderner, and even your Daddy.
Thank God we managed to escape those damned dinosaurs. They were the Mid-West of culture, and the South of intellectualism. And we all know they'd never have been able to pull off a deep v.
If Mary, the color blind dinosaur, knows all the neuro-science behind perceiving colors does she learn something new when she ACTUALLY sees the color red?
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If you could be Jeff Goldbloom by stepping into an experience machine, would you do it, aware that it is just a simulation?
Will we ever know what it is like to be a velociraptor?
yes. to everything.
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