Itās difficult to get even rough estimates of the number of individual plants in the world; for the purposes of the reflective equilibrium section, it suffices that there are far more plants than ants. In addition to plants, we are also investigating (in broad strokes) the extent to which prokaryotes do and donāt exhibit the features traditionally taken to be relevant to assessing consciousness. Finally, as your diction suggests you already know, the phenomenon of sea squirts āeating their own brainā has sometimes been exaggerated in the literature. (In fact, adult sea squirts have perfectly good brains.)
Very nice piece! So how many plants are there in the world? And why did you choose that rather than motile bacteria? I would guess they would be a better candidate, given they are more numerous and the questionable assertion that the sea squirt eats its brain when it stops swimming around.
Itās difficult to get even rough estimates of the number of individual plants in the world; for the purposes of the reflective equilibrium section, it suffices that there are far more plants than ants. In addition to plants, we are also investigating (in broad strokes) the extent to which prokaryotes do and donāt exhibit the features traditionally taken to be relevant to assessing consciousness. Finally, as your diction suggests you already know, the phenomenon of sea squirts āeating their own brainā has sometimes been exaggerated in the literature. (In fact, adult sea squirts have perfectly good brains.)