>>10359997Consciousness, to me, is the outwardly apparent process/phenomena of something being able to process stimuli and conditions outside itself and make a mulititude of decisions on how to react accordingly. Just a basis.
1. Humans seem to experience this. Most organisms do in fact. Plants probably, but it is hard to be sure; I am not aware if plants can alter their reactions to their environment, or if it it is almost entirely locked into a chemical process sourced from outaide itself.
2.Consciousness likely manifests itself as low as the cell level. An amoeba can sense and chase its prey, and must make path decisions to do so.
3. For consiousness to matter at all, you require three things - something that is conscious, and another thing that appears to be conscious, and the rest of the surrounding, "non-conscious" universe to differentiate themselves from. A conscious being in a completely non-conscious world could make no distinctions between itself and the envrionment. Everything may appear to him as conscious or not at all, and the same would be true for it. With another potentially conscious thing for the original conscious thing to observe, there is now a clear, observable distinction that this phenomenon exists.
