>I dont think animals' "consciousness" is all that mysterious, since I think humans experience the same degree of consciousness every day. Humans also experience the higher level, as we often consider to be "consciousness", but throughout the day there's times when a person is not in that deeper degree. Any time you're not paying active mental attention, and you're not using working memory, then you are likely using subconscious reaction, just like animals do all day long.So I have a hunch that many animals on earth are conscious to some degree, it got me pondering how different it would feel to be one of those animals. — Dendu
>I think consciousness functions by method of memory access, and I dont think memories can be passed on through reproduction. I think just instincts are passed on, which are generally constant persistent reactions, not adaptive reactions, such as subconscious or consciousness.do you think its reasonable to think that consciousness also has a storage and that it too is passed on during reproduction? — Dendu
Welcome and thanks for starting this topic!Greetings, I am new here.
So I have a hunch that many animals on earth are conscious to some degree, it got me pondering how different it would feel to be one of those animals. In comparison to being a human I imagine quite different. Often consciousness is considered to be complete and independent, where the brains of the individual beings differ and that is what creates differences in subjective experience?
I was drawing an analogy to computer protocols of sending and receiving data. When data is sent from one program to another, it usually adheres to a specific protocol, and the receiving program would use that protocol to deal with what it has received in a correct fashion. I was wondering if the brain and 'consciousness' also have a similar problem and I started to think how it would solve it. The human body's shape and form is stored within its dna. Now that same dna defines the brain too, so input data from the external world enters the brain of the experiencer and it must be uploaded to the 'consciousness'. This is where I believe a 'protocol' as described above is required for each individual creature. And that the sender program(the dna) must use similar protocol as the receiver program ( consciousness dna?). Here is the question, do you think its reasonable to think that consciousness also has a storage and that it too is passed on during reproduction? And thus be under the influence of evolution over millions of years too. #foodforthought
Because Science knows so little about the actual mechanisms of Consciousness, any and all speculations are still on the table. Your speculation is a good one that could be proven true or false some day.Here is the question, do you think its reasonable to think that consciousness also has a storage and that it too is passed on during reproduction? And thus be under the influence of evolution over millions of years too. #foodforthought — Dendu
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