Where do you all think the ability to experience comes from? Are there any organisms you think don’t experience - plants, bacteria? What about rocks, galaxies, or computers?
Where do you all think the ability to experience comes from? Are there any organisms you think don’t experience - plants, bacteria? What about rocks, galaxies, or computers?
Neal Stephenson’s Snow Crash (1992) reminded people of Julian Jaynes’ The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind (1976) – claiming that consciousness in humans is a lot more recent than we think it is – consciousness as a result of the integration between the left and right hemispheres of our brain – before that time, “thoughts” passing across the corpus callosum where perceived as being the voices of the gods …