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"Is my dog conscious?"

I would say absolutely. But maybe we have a different definition of consciousness.



"Clearly not, he's asleep right now."


Consciousness in the metaphysical sense isn't really turned off when you sleep; otherwise you couldn't have dreams.


Assuming you're really awake and having dreams as opposed to your thoughts being reorganized in a way that you simply remember as vivid, real experiences. Even if you're conscious, that's only a tiny part of sleep (often REM). Being awakened otherwise is like just having missing time where there's a gap in conscious experience. As if it was off.


Sure, above was not serious commentary, but a joke interpreting consciousness in the other sense.




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