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Consciousness with Roger Penrose
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Consciousness is something that we have
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as unique only humans I don't believe
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it's only humans well it's hard to know
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how far down I mean there are many
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animals which I said definitely
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conscious my ba has three dogs and she
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certainly thinks the dogs are aware she
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can communicate with the dogs and they
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communicate with her in ways which don't
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involve language in the ordinary sense
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she would certainly say her dogs are
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conscious and I would certainly argue
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that too I would say an octopus is
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conscious yes I guess there is something
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in that there are certain animals that
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would certainly say have Consciousness
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you say octopus you would say for short
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yes there was an example that containers
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with many octopuses and the person was
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going to feed them and get some sort of
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shrimps or something they fed them they
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went right to the end and they came back
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the first one was standing there he
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picked up the shrimp and hand it in his
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in his tentacle and put it down the
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drain so clearly was saying what kind of
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rubbish are you feeding me you see I saw
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that was pretty impressive I thought
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octopuses like shrimps they don't like
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shrimps well maybe this one didn't like
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shrimps