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Originally Posted by chopinisawesome
If flatworms were conscious beings, we would probably be seeing somewhat advanced flatworm colonies or something. It seems pretty clear that they are not conscious beings. They work by instinct. However, humans are pretty clearly conscious
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That is a very limited way to assess consciousness. There's no guarantee that intelligence and consciousness are linked.
The reasons human are so clearly conscious is not because they are intelligent social creatures, but because you happen to be one and you're conscious... And you have brain structures dedicated to analyzing the mental state of humans so its kind of an assumption our brains operate in as social creatures. There is really no good argument for other humans having consciousness besides you. You have no way to objectively measure it. You can only infer that other humans might be like you on the inside.