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“Everything alive is sentient. To accept this feels not at all like a humiliation of our species, but it is a humbling of sorts. And a precious gift—the kinship of all these sentient others an antidote to our loneliness”
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“To delve into the subject of consciousness is to quickly discover how little we know about a phenomenon we all know so well. It doesn’t help that scientists and philosophers who work on the problem don’t agree on what they mean by the word consciousness or on what, exactly, they are trying to explain”
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“I sometimes wonder if the quest to find the wellspring of consciousness is but a socially (and scientifically) acceptable proxy for the search for the soul.”
— Aug 24, 2026 03:25AM