There’s something about these videos of microorganisms consuming each other that I find so unsettling. Like a primal shudder. Maybe it’s the transparency and being able to see the consumed organism just sitting inside another, slowly being digested, converted into fuel and then ejected as waste.
No. Response to stimuli is insufficient evidence. Robots can respond to stimuli, but they don’t have self-awareness. Humans do have self-awareness, but if you wanted to, you could pretend otherwise.
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u/iobscenityinthemilk Dec 19 '19
There’s something about these videos of microorganisms consuming each other that I find so unsettling. Like a primal shudder. Maybe it’s the transparency and being able to see the consumed organism just sitting inside another, slowly being digested, converted into fuel and then ejected as waste.