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The main problem I feel is people have a very immature understanding of what awareness, consciousness, and sentience is.
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After AI I have changed my personal perspective on it.
My personal take is that "everything has the potential to be conscious and have a soul."
Like, if you put humans, on the same scale as animals, and plants, and anything that is living, to me it works out like this:
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1. Life begins as single cellular, and has basic 1's and 0's as commands Eat, dont eat EAT dont eat EAT dont eat, replicate, replicate, replicate, etc.
2. As you go up the scale you get plants that react to their surroundings.
3. Continue you get bugs, that can explore their surroundings.
4. Then you get dumb animals that seem to have fear, and begin to share a lot of emotional traits we have.
5. this brings us to the next major step in intelligence: Self awareness.
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6. at a certain point animals can identify themself within their surroundings: "This is a tree, and I can hide behind it"
7. at this point an animal may not be "self aware" .. that's where the next step comes in: The Mirror Test.
8. The mirror test checks if an animal can identify themselves, as a reflection, vs thinking that the reflection is another animal.
Being able to identify themselves, is the beginning of the "ID" (or what we call a soul).
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9. Once an animal has an ID ... it can now be considered to be semi concious IMO.. it's got almost everything that you and I have. It can fear, want, be lazy, etc.. it knows where its head begins, and it's ass ends.
10. The final step of consciousness, is to be aware of the world - outside of the one you exist in.
The 3 levels of consciousness:
1. Fight or flight, emotions, lazyness. = Advanced Life
2. Are you aware of yourself and your environment? = Self Aware
3. And are you aware of yourself, the environment... and other things outside of your environment? = Soul
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The only difference is the scale of it's ID.
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Scales of ID:
1. Binary soul-less creature: plants, simple insects, single cell organisms
2. Semi conscious animals
3. Self-aware conscious animals
4. Self aware concious animals with a soul.
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You gain a soul, when your sense of ID - takes you beyond your local awareness.
In simple terms: Animals that
can see themselves in the mirror but are still
not able to comprehend the continent they are on. Do not have a soul.
But we human's do!
We can comprehend the earth, space, and the beyond.
That is when you gain a "soul"
When you understand you are here, someone else is there, and beyond that is something else.
That is having a soul.
And what that also means is that we are all disgusting bugs and rats, and have no soul, and the soul id something we made up.
So hopefully im wrong!