A 'Third State' Exists Between Life and Death—And That Suggests Your Cells Are Conscious, Some Scientists Say

return2ozma@lemmy.world · 9 days ago

A 'Third State' Exists Between Life and Death—And That Suggests Your Cells Are Conscious, Some Scientists Say

originalucifer@moist.catsweat.com · 9 days ago

all you have to do is water down what ‘consiousness’ is and boom individual cells are conscious. why stop there, lets get down to conscious molecules whynot.

pffft. what a dogshit premise.

will_a113@lemmy.ml · 9 days ago

This is basically the idea behind Integrated Information Theory, where even quantum particles have some nominal amount of “consciousness” because they interact with and affect their environment.