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Originally Posted by pavel_lishin
Because we're the only conscious beings on the planet that we are aware of, and we define consciousness in terms of ourselves - and that demands having a self. Anything too wildly different from our idea of consciousness won't be recognized as self-aware by us.
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Aye, this is a good point. The only tools we have to measure consciousness or identify conscious entities are things like the Turing Test. I can't think of a single way to prove consciousness a priori, i.e., with mathematics or logic.