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Self awareness is not unique to humankind. Life in my opinion is the Universes way of becoming self aware. It is also Carl Sagans who I stole the idea from!
Thirty percent of your dry body weight are organisms (bacteria etc) that are not you. Without them you would not survive. These resident organisms live in a symbiotic relationship with all of us. Disease can really be thought of as this balance going awry.
Where does an individual start and end. We actually all rely on the vast web of life that covers this planet for our survival.
I happen to think that the human brain and others are body temperature quantum computers at some underlying level. I can think of no other reason for the existence of self awareness or conciousness. Quantum entanglement then can link everything together in ways we can only guess at.
This is all conjecture of course but is testable. We do not even know where to start. Perhaps the development of quantum computers which is happening as we speak can shed some light on this.
I have done a lot of my best work while asleep! Or outside for a smoke not even conciously thinking of the problem I had, and an idea would materialise that quite often was correct.
Bert
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