Quote Originally Posted by Monty92 View Post
I've no idea what self-awareness has to do with anything. You really think humans have self-awareness and, say, a woodlouse doesn't?
Neither of us know what it is like to be a woodlouse. Although you will in your next life, obv. :guffaw:

I don't believe they experience consciousness as we do. Ours is tied up with our symbolic and abstract thought, I expect.

Presumably you believe that your phone has consciousness. Why not, by your reckoning?