Sure, but if you inspect the reasons for this intuitions (mostly “simple things don’t talk”?), you find that they may just as easily imply different kind of consciousness instead of absence of consciousness. Or alternatively you can use different words for the difference between us and zombies and the difference between us and simple things, but then the difference between us and simple things is not mysterious.
Sure, but if you inspect the reasons for this intuitions (mostly “simple things don’t talk”?), you find that they may just as easily imply different kind of consciousness instead of absence of consciousness.
This sounds like the naive theodicy that reconciles the existence of evil with the goodness of God by saying that God is indeed good, but in ways we cannot understand.
Sure, but if you inspect the reasons for this intuitions (mostly “simple things don’t talk”?), you find that they may just as easily imply different kind of consciousness instead of absence of consciousness. Or alternatively you can use different words for the difference between us and zombies and the difference between us and simple things, but then the difference between us and simple things is not mysterious.
This sounds like the naive theodicy that reconciles the existence of evil with the goodness of God by saying that God is indeed good, but in ways we cannot understand.
Does electron consciousness do anything at all?
It moves and spins.
Not in the sense of a spinning top. It’s in various quantum states.