06-01-2019, 03:44 AM
(05-31-2019, 01:03 PM)Salt Wrote: With that in mind, you may begin to grasp the awareness of 2D: it is instinctual. It is not individuated. Does one cell say "I am distinctively John Doe, I like board games, and my favorite color is green"? When does the cell end and the giraffe begin? What is doing the thinking? What is aware of what?
so in order to be self aware and individuated a being has to be able to think for example "I am distinctively John Doe, I like board games, and my favorite color is green." but what if a beaver doesnt care about that stuff? we might think that mindset of "im a person i like this and that" is a good mark for self awareness but maybe the beaver is on another level and doesnt care to have those thoughts in the first place rather than is unable to lol.

the cell can do its own thing, i guess it is its own 2d being and the beaver begins at being the connection of the soul and the body/mind complex thing right? the thing doing the thinking/being aware is the intelligent energy of reality. how do u know its instinctual? wouldnt you say youre self aware but i could imagine higher beings seeing us as instinctual in a certain sense (instinctual to act in our best interest). i still like the question of if a beaver was self aware how would it act differently? im saying it would do the same stuff so i dont see how you can judge self awareness in that case.