How sure are you that the human brain cells in the vat are not aware and suffering?
How sure are you that the human brain cells in the vat are not aware and suffering?
That doesn't follow. You could, for example, be a substance dualist. Alternatively you could suspect that there exists some special as yet undocumented property of the human CNS that is required as a prerequisite. Or etc.
What's going on here? Answer: Fallacy of affirmation of the consequent.
This isn't a freshman philosophy seminar.
No molecules are conscious.
> Most human brains are.
Not relevant because we are talking about brain cells, not brains. It's both a fallacy of affirmation of the consequent and a fallacy of composition.
> This isn't a freshman philosophy seminar.
And thus one goes through life blithely using fallacious logic while dismissing the fact that it is logically incoherent.