
51: On Consciousness | Annaka Harris
The After On Podcast
Is There Consciousness in a Starfish?
I think anything with a brain, it's hard to rule out consciousness like a brain in a central nervous system. And where do we lose that? We lose that in a plant, of course. You mention in the book, you lose it in a starfish, right? Yes. So starfish does not have a brain, right? But most fish do,right? Yes. How interesting. One of these early, truly profoundly ampathetic moments that i can remember was with one of those that may well not be conscious, but we don't know. It has since gone even deeper than that. Where they've been able to determine that people who have no movement at all are
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