Consciousness is a property of the first-person: e.g. To me I am conscious but inherently can’t know you are. Whether or not something is conscious is asking if you think from that thing’s perspective. So there is no typical or atypical conscious being, from my perspective I am “the” conscious being, if I reason from something else’s perspective, then that thing is “the” conscious being instead.
Our usual notion of considering ourselves as a typical conscious being is because we are more used to thinking from the perspectives of things similar to us. e.g. we are more apt to think from the perspective of another person than a cat, and from the perspective of a cat than a chair. In other words, we tend to ascribe the property of consciousness to things more like ourselves, instead of the other way around: that we are typical in some sense.
The part where I know I’m conscious while not you is an assertion. It is not based on reasoning or logic but simply because it feels so. The rest are arguments which depend on said assertion.
Thought the reply was addressed to me. But nonetheless, it’s a good opportunity to delineate and inspect my own argument. So leaving the comment here.
Consciousness is a property of the first-person: e.g. To me I am conscious but inherently can’t know you are. Whether or not something is conscious is asking if you think from that thing’s perspective. So there is no typical or atypical conscious being, from my perspective I am “the” conscious being, if I reason from something else’s perspective, then that thing is “the” conscious being instead.
Our usual notion of considering ourselves as a typical conscious being is because we are more used to thinking from the perspectives of things similar to us. e.g. we are more apt to think from the perspective of another person than a cat, and from the perspective of a cat than a chair. In other words, we tend to ascribe the property of consciousness to things more like ourselves, instead of the other way around: that we are typical in some sense.
The part where I know I’m conscious while not you is an assertion. It is not based on reasoning or logic but simply because it feels so. The rest are arguments which depend on said assertion.
Thought the reply was addressed to me. But nonetheless, it’s a good opportunity to delineate and inspect my own argument. So leaving the comment here.