[extropy-chat] Qualia Bet

[gts]

Paramecium bursaria may be representative of the first animals to have  
eyes. Curiously, their eyes are plants.

P. bursaria farm Chlorella in their cytoplasm:

https://mailserver5.hushmail.com/hushmail/index.php

Unlike its un-chlorella-fied cousins,  P. bursaria gravitate toward light  
for nourishment.

Does it make sense then to say P. bursaria can see but that its cousins  
are blind? I think so. Normal paramecia wander about aimlessly to find  
food, like blind unconscious people.

But P. bursaria is smarter than your average bear: it uses Chlorella to   
"see".

Do P. bursaria experience something we could call quaila? If not then what  
do we mean by "seeing"?

In separate news, I noticed this headline about the ability of bees to  
recognize human faces:

Bees can recognize human faces, study finds
http://www.physorg.com/news8953.html

-gts