>>11078539I find this to be pretty interesting actually.
We know something like consciousness exists in this world.
I for one could easily believe that it is an emergent property of complexity arising in a neural network. Many people who have fully understood them would probably say the same. Think about it: What makes you really you is the hard-wiring in your brain, with some added memories. There's nothing else to speak of, there doesnt have to be something else for it to work, basically.
And think about this: There's no reason for consciousness to be just one property that can be tuned up or down in a straight line. Consciousness arises from complexity, so it is a complex sum of many different parts that is beyond "understanding". It can have many forms. Likewise, my guess is that every animals experiences a much different form of consciousness, that has next to no relation to human consciousness.
Studies have shown that insects react to different pain differently, for example.
Some have shown different kinds of grief, others just moved along and ignored it.
So there is a possibility that some animal's consciousness is even "greater", or let's say "much more vibrant", than in humans. I could easily imagine that, because it is a very good tool to survive in the wild. Being able to abstract things like us humans does not have to be a part of being conscious.
