But who else, besides myself, has experiences? Because you are so similar to me, I abduce that you do.
How far consciousness extends its dominion within the tree of life becomes more difficult to abduce as species become more alien to us.
Again, the similarities between the structure, dynamics, and genetic specification of nervous systems of all tetrapods ... allows me to abduce that they too experience the world.
Source: https://thereader.mitpress.mit.edu/is-consciousness-everywhere/
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