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Are We the Only Conscious Mammals?
There is a fundamental difference between us and the petangirl. Could consciousness have been like the invention of the eukaryotic cell or something like that? We either need an explanation for why there's non conscious matter in the universe and then something happens for consciousness to come into being, or it's part of the fundamental nature of reality. And so the answer has to be all or some.