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what would the world be with-out consciousnesses,	Dark_Crow	02/24/05
what would the world be with-out consciousnesses, what would a human be with-out consciousness?
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Jim.McGinness		02/24/05
As always, the answer depends quite a bit on the meanings attached to the words of your question. Consider the earth of 75 to 100 million years ago. There were a few small mammal or proto-mammal species and a great flowering of reptile and dinosaur species. The world operated in a natural way back then, without benefit of anything that could readily be called consciousness, in the sense that we humans have it. A lot of what we see around us in the modern world seems to us to be the result of consciousness. How strange it would be if we visited another planet and found a species with a similar degree of technological development to what we have but, when we attempted to communicate with them, we found it impossible because they lacked anything resembling what we call consciousness.

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