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the mystery of consciousness

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What David Chalmers named "the hard problem" has not been solved: How can the brain produce  consciousness? No one seem to have the answer for that yet. Although consciousness maybe is the phenomena witch we can be most certain of that it exists. The definition of  consciousness here is; the way we experience things. In this definition it's quite obvious that even a bat has  om kind of experience, even if  Thomas Nagel and others mean that we can never imagine the "umwelt" of a bat. But even if the experiences for the bat is different from ours its still  consciousness. But is an ant  conscious - or a plant? We now know that a plant can react to the bite from insect and warn other plants. We know that som flowers can send electric signals to a bee that says, I have a lot of nectar here, come and eat", the bee can answer with another electric signal and when he or she comes both signals fade away. Descartes meant that animals where machi...