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[–] poo@kbin.social 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

This is why I've been increasingly depressed that I love meat so much. I've even started feeling bad swatting at flies. Humans are egotistical in our assumption that only our way of experiencing reality is special or meaningful. Just because what we call consciousness doesn't appear to exist in certain living beings doesn't mean they don't experience reality and memory in their own meaningful way we don't understand yet.

Imagine if we discovered blades of grass experienceed pain when cut - I've had some existential anxiety over shit like this ☠️