In regards to eating meat

[BrownEye]

Sure. Of course it's possible! Anything can be individuated. Even a locale. And after having worked with the old mainframe computers, I see no reason why awareness couldn't develop in the circuitry of a computer.

Thought forms use our electronics, such as the egregore that is created by this thread. These are what causes us to continue the addiction of the debate, even though you already know it makes no difference, that neither party will change. It feeds into your emotions and you can even get angry for no logical reason. Given enough energy they can keep you from submitting new posts that disarm the aura of anger. I was part of a large group experiencing an intelligent/aware thought form in action, and it happened to be my first experience with magic to banish it.

I have not seen anything reside in a single circuit, more like anything "connected" is a conduit. AC, web, phone, etc.

But realistically, how likely is it that someone will cherish a single carrot, among all the other carrots in his garden, to the point of raising its awareness to individuation?

I could see houseplants and office ivies developing self-awareness before carrots.

Sure, if you wanted to invest all that into a carrot, then it would be just as wrong (in my view) to kill it/eat it as it would to kill/eat a cow.

For some reason "time" has an effect on this. Long term energy investment, whether by one person or many. For a very short lived animal it might be more comparable to a plant.

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Supply and demand--a very simple concept. If you buy the product, you contribute to the demand

I assume there is a utopia in "potentiation"

It does not support factory farming or capitalism.