>>12116944It's environmental awareness. You're not exactly conscious while asleep, and you're not conscious when in vegetative state. Other primates are conscious, dogs are "less" conscious, dolphins are "more" conscious, etc. Even protozoa are conscious and they don't even have a nervous system.
Again, qualia is simply a thing to put humans in a pedestal, because there is no real difference between us and the rest of the animal kingdom and this hurts some people's feelings. How any living being (and again bet those obsessed with qualia can't define what's life) reacts to its environment is physically imposed, like having the ability of seeing colors by having different cells in the eyes, yet we can't "feel" electric fields nor "taste" ionic gradients. Notice how we don't even have words for those actions yet other living stuff can do it, and you don't see """"""philosophers"""""" calling themselves electric p-zombies.
>>12116963Thanks for your contribution Deepak.
