Comment by dpark
10 hours ago
You simply defined consciousness as life, which seems like an unusual but also not very useful definition.
10 hours ago
You simply defined consciousness as life, which seems like an unusual but also not very useful definition.
> an unusual ... definition
I don't think it's that unusual. It seems to me just to be a narrower version of panpsychism:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Panpsychism
Someone that has recently dies has pretty much the same biology as when they were alive. The conciseness is the main difference, I would say.