That reminds me. Way back during the Seventies, I'd accuse someone of saying something stupid with shorting out yet another one of my brain cells.
Maybe I stopped saying that because I was afraid it was true.
During this century I was sure it happened when I heard a grown adult named Nancy Pelosi say, "Let's pass this bill to see what's in it."
A Speaker Of The House would SAY THAT???!!!!!!

I think of it as the two remaining brain cells in constant battle for dominance.

Some think that Dolphins might be self aware, but more likely, a stage in the middle between unaware and fully introspective.

Now that is an interesting thought, (will I retain my identity on Mars), although, I think, and many others have posited that the mind (the fields outside your head, assigned to YOU) is connected to the ether which spans the universe. In other words, once achieved or accepted, your quantum identity can never be denied. Blocked, perhaps...via CIA conspiracies'/programing etc as we have heard so many times...there is something to the latter but have NOT seen real, duplicatable proof.
No one knows if humankind was consciously introspective prior the the flood 12K years ago, but it's pretty evident, we sure weren't afterwards for a few thousand years.

That, my friend, is at the very outer edge of my work. In my second book, I will still call all this a "Discussion"...I am not sure it will ever be provable, even though we can measure it and observe certain aspects of it.

I observe that consciousness/introspection/conscience and the voice of self are a part of our natural evolution. I do not observe that we evolved from monkeys, we were a species apart from anything else walking upright, so to speak.

The low gravity of Mars will definitely present a long term health problem for a colonist.
I know for a fact long term zero gravity has messed with some astronauts who have returned to earth.
Human intellect should find a solution perhaps.

Rush Limbaugh once explained that while dolphins are intelligent, they lack hands to make anything and all they can say is "Ack! Ack! Ack!"

A crab and a jellyfish already comes with appendages, the latter's being fiendish. Sorry, eel.

Interesting thought... consciousness and function of said is dependent upon the Earth’s unique magnetic field. Gotta wonder will man “Think or Be” if he colonizes Mars

Carbon Dioxide is plant food, enough said period end of story!!!!

Humanoid by nature is already non-conscious, just a brain in a body, no mind, no conscience, no "I".
That is why I call the Global Delete: Parasitical humanoids.
Like a living robot.

I wonder how consciousness survives what's coming. My Hypothesis, not without observable facts but not sure I can call it a theory, is that it was the strengthening of our magnetic shields after the last disaster/pole excursion etc, blocking out the damaging cosmic rays; allowed 'some' of humankind to achieve awareness of self, eventually the voice of self and a conscience about 2500/3000 years ago.

It would be interesting to see if introspection/consciousness is lost once the shields go below 50% or if Consciousness/self introspection, once achieved, survives it all.

The way humans flock to the beaches these days and act like they want to return to the sea... maybe it will be a new specie of crab or eel or jellyfish...

Yeah, it won't be some new primate form of hairless ape for doing apeschiff things.
You just can't adaptation of any species upwardly evolve and survive like that.

Did you ever wonder what the next intelligent specie will be. I am betting it won’t be humanoid.

You cannot make this stuff up!

It's a mutation of liberalism being a mental disorder.

You're welcome. (-:

Someone that I know uses the term:
"Cognitive Dissidence" to define this new generation.
IMHO that's a very fitting term.

Hilarious!

This put a contented smile on my face. Thanks Dino! I needed this.
I totally saw this coming 3 years ago when it became apparent the American Millennials had made the BIPOC their “cause”. And they were going to “save” them.

[shakes head laughing] Gotta love idiocy biting its own tail and then wondering what's going on...

That last sentence milked out a dino chuckle.

The poor science ignorant darlings will now be depressed. Why can we not do real science anymroe. Why can none of them ever admit that we are in a Grand Solar Minimum sun cycle, with several more years of colder weather, like the 45 forcest for later this week as a low! Why do none of them seem to know pollution and climate are not the same thing. Why do they not know we would all die without CO2 and thus plants, which produce oxygen? If they just learned the truth about even a fraction of education, but no, just politics and activism. Maybe it is okey for them to bet the bio weapon vax, and start over.

"During his heyday," Gore scored $100,000 a pop just for lying to an audience of sheeple.
https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/washi...

I know a number of liberal whites who are being read the riot act by persons of color for their "condescending white saviorism." From my perspective, it seems the persons of color are engaging in a "shoot self in foot" attitude, demeaning those who are eager to spend time and money to help those who are too obsessed with their agenda to help themselves.

That total hypocrite should come to mind, since his mansion uses between 21 and 34 times more electricity than the average home. Green, my ass.