I adopt the theory that all consciousness is energy vibrating the strings of the quarks that make up the atoms of the universe that make up humans that study the workings of the universe and thus, ourselves.

A chorus of being.

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teiferer 3 days ago | parent [-]

Are you thus postulating that the rock next to me is as conscious as I am?

That's a weird use of the term. Doesn't match how I would define it, but you do you.

	▲	reactordev 3 days ago \| parent \| next [-]
		Yes but due to its density, it takes millions of years to form a sentence. If you listen closely to trees, they also speak with one another. Mountains do too. We just have the attention span of a gnat. I’m sure at some cosmic level there’s cities of marbles like ours just humming away.
	▲	exe34 3 days ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		Panpsychism. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Panpsychism I think it's a bit kooky, but there are weirder things that are true in this little Universe.