How can we be sure that a creature not pertaining to the human form could encapsulate a consciousness? I have no problem entertaining the possibility because it is of my nature to consider all things as conceivable, but I'm sure many so-called 'humanists' would disagree with the notion of a consious being outside of our own environment (I don't think E.T. would agree with them).
But for the purposes of conceivability, if I had been a non-human creature popping into existence orbiting and eventually landing on Earth with only the meager capability of the unfortunately short list of five 'human' senses, I suppose my experience would go something like this:
Clearness, pain, confusion, blurriness, focus, euphoria, and then pain again, followed by euphoria and an endless cycle of the above emotions.
What do you think it feels like to be a piece of soil, a giraffe, or an atom? Does it 'feel' like anything? How can we be sure that any other being does or does not have a conciousness?
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