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The Importance of Functional Consciousness in the Borderlands
In the borderlands, people can't tell us if they're conscious. They don't have behaviors or motor output to indicate their state. So is there a science of consciousness that might be helpful? And does a stance like this even make sense in the borderlands? We may only get to the two or three months stage of embryonic development for how complex these many brains are.