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Consciousness may be a slippery slope down to every cell
If consciousness is defined as an organism responding to its environment, then every cell—even an amoeba moving away from heat—is conscious; this makes the concept slippery and possibly a linguistic problem rather than a brain problem, much as wave-particle duality is a problem only for human language and not for the photon.
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Jeff LichtmanEvidence Quote
“Every living thing is conscious, I would say. And I know philosophers say, you don't know what you're talking about... but I think it's a slippery slope between what we have and what an amoeba has.”
Created: 6/13/2026, 12:30:16 AM
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