Why Consciousness Might Not Belong to Us Alone

Thousands of galaxies in a sliver of sky (from the James Webb Space Telescope) the size of a grain of sand. On this scale, the idea that consciousness belongs only to Earthly biology starts to look like conceit (Credit : NASA, ESA, CSA, STScI)

We have spent centuries being knocked off our pedestal. Earth isn’t the centre of the Solar System, the Sun isn’t the centre of the Galaxy, and we are not the point around which everything else turns. Now two philosophers want to take the demotion one step further and apply it to the thing we hold most precious of all, our own conscious minds. If they’re right, awareness may be far more widespread, and far stranger, than we ever dared imagine.

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