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green_amber ([personal profile] green_amber) wrote2005-10-24 03:14 pm
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Let's try a different approach

..The Wikipaedia approach - definition by democracy..

[Poll #597131]

[identity profile] i-ate-my-crusts.livejournal.com 2005-10-24 07:26 pm (UTC)(link)
Single-celled organisms have chemical memory, which you can demonstrate by experiment, but I think I'd only consider some single celled organisms to have consciousness. Single-celled covers everything from archaebacteria to amoeba, afterall.

My definition I'm not so sure of, but I think it involves memory -- taking an experience and changing future behaviour as a result.