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What do we deem conscious or not? Is it just sensations and experiences? What is the cutoff point to claim that something is conscious?
What I am trying to ask in particular is how do we know what is conscious and what is not just because something moves, breathes and interacts with the environment doesn't mean it is necessarily ...
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Do distinctions and concepts exist?
Before answering the question, keep in mind that I am a second-year Biology student, with a lack of formal study in Philosophy.
Original post: I believe, all definitions, words, and concepts (...
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Is murder wrong accross the board? If not, when?
Is it wrong to murder anything, in any circumstance?
If sometimes its justified, based on species, circumstance, self defense, ideology, when is it considered wrong?
What is the justification for ...
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Could "I" become consciousness as someone else in the future?
I want to immediately dismiss any idea of soul or spiritual component of human being and I accept that death is nothingness (end) when it comes to my question. No rebirth, reincarnation etc.
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What happens to consciousness after death?
Is it possible that our innate sense of self, our egocentric outlook on the world, could be wrong? After all, our brains are never REALLY connected; so we cannot know for sure that our consciousness ...
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Would there be any point in mind-uploading?
If you cloned a human being, atom for atom, you would almost certainly find that you've created a new entity, with its own consciousness, and memory of having been previously conscious. Assuming the ...
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Is consciousness the base definition of living?
Humanity is at the advent of making self-aware and hence conscious Artificial Intelligence. What is the limit when we stop calling these "Artificial"?
When does a machine take the title of "Living"?
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What caused the cause (to the power of eternity) [closed]
Modern science says that a cause causes another cause. i.e. the big bang was a cause which eventually caused everything we see today. So what caused the big bang? Apparently multi-verses colliding? ...
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Why do we reproduce? [closed]
Why do we (including other living organisms) reproduce? Why is it necessary that our race keeps flourishing and multiplying? I couldn't find any useful articles on google except for some yahoo and ...
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