00:00In Western philosophy, what things are conscious?
00:03Most I would just, everybody would say that non-human primates are conscious,
00:08and cetaceans, dolphins, whales have brains to be conscious, and others.
00:13But how far down can you go where you can impute the idea of consciousness?
00:19You see, ego is something that only humans have in abundance.
00:24But consciousness is something that is all-pervasive,
00:30but not in the sense that is used in the popular kind of spirituality.
00:37Why should I say that the line of consciousness gets blurred down,
00:46thins down, and ultimately disappears after a certain point?
00:50Why must I say that?
00:51We have the human beings, and we have these many species,
00:56let's say, X million more species that are conscious,
00:59and then the other ones are not deserving enough to be called conscious.
01:05The only way we declare somebody as conscious or unconscious
01:12is by mapping similarity, sameness.
01:15If that creature is behaving in the same way that I do,
01:21I call that as conscious.
01:23I say, okay, the dog behaves in certain conditions,
01:29in ways similar to mine.
01:32The cat responds to my touch.
01:35So I will call them conscious.
01:37And this is egoic classification.
01:41What lies at the basis of this classification
01:45is the human being's body identification.
01:50I am supreme, my body is supreme,
01:53and the bodies that behave like this body
01:56will be labeled as conscious.
01:59no possibilities.島
