• Would you agree that “to live is to know”?
I would agree with this statement. Every living being is conscious, interacting with the world around them. How we measure levels of consciousness includes the term cognition which is the process of knowing or taking in information and concepts present in the world around us. This is what makes consciousness and the act of cognition different.
As living beings, part of how we define living systems is the presence of cognition. I personally believe that everything in existence including rock, stars, dirt and other ‘non-living’ substances posses a level of consciousness. I am not sure if they posses what we define as cognition but they certianly posses a level of consciousness that is undeniable.
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