I am entitled to say, if I like, that awareness exists in all the indi…

Lewis Thomas
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I am entitled to say, if I like, that awareness exists in all the individual creatures on the planet-worms, sea urchins, gnats, whales, subhuman primates, superprimate humans, the lot. I can say this because we do not know what we are talking about: consciousness is so much a total mystery for our own species that we cannot begin to guess about its existence in others. ✨ Lewis Thomas (1990). A Long Line of Cells Collected Essays
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