What Is the Experience of a Dog or a Cat or an E Coli?

consciousness is a good example of a noun that we tend to reify and say, okay, there's a particular kind of thing here. All the awareness seems to me to have a little bit less baggage than consciousness. And as Mike said, one ends up asking questions about the consciousness of bacteria that sort of presupposes that it's something like ours. So I think a way to try to get around this problem is to start with the idea of experience,.

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