<div class="gmail_quote">On 6 June 2012 08:30, Kelly Anderson <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:kellycoinguy@gmail.com" target="_blank">kellycoinguy@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
OK... maybe I'm defining consciousness more in terms of "self<br>
awareness"... I don't know how self awareness is related to<br>
consciousness, but when I think of consciousness, that's sort of the<br>
kind of thing that pops into my head. And no, I do not think that a<br>
switch is self aware. Plants? I dunno.<br clear="all"></blockquote><div><br>I submit that in fact one *never* knows in any rigorous sense. <br><br>AFAIK, the world might be populated by philosophical zombies. Human zombies, animal zombies, plant zombies.<br>
</div></div><br>-- <br>Stefano Vaj<br>