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> The declaration focuses on the most basic kind of consciousness, known as phenomenal consciousness. Roughly put, if a creature has phenomenal consciousness, then it is “like something” to be that creature

a 1995 thought experiment suggested that an etch-a-sketch could also be conscious

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Would two cities debating about whether humans are conscious be able to understand that we humans ask the same questions about our cells?

Sorry, the cells that were going to answer that are on vacation visiting in another human.

Are analogies always constrained to be so literal? Do we complain about how many legs the 'wasp' has when talking about wasps and orchids?

Apologies, that was meant to be humour rather than criticism.

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