Children of time. I knew already when I read it that all lifeforms big and small have a conscious experience but it allowed me to see that the qualia of other animals may be just the same as ours, the experiences and internal view of the world of even insects probably have as much impact as us. We have self reflection, longer memories, 100 trillion neurons but the upfront experience and qualia probably isn't all that different. Things like pain, hunger, chemically induced feelings... perhaps even as far a ambience, atmosphere but definetly just general feelings and urges that arise, wants and needs. It has made me extremely aware of suffering of even the smallest pests, I'll always put the Spider out and even try my best to get the flies out before taking harsher measures with them. I suppose it has affected it me in the way that I can not hurt a fly without feeling badly about it, people will think me silly but even the simplest organisms must have a very vivid qualia and I can't get that thought out of my head. Where people won't think me as silly, I can't stand any and all animal experimentation now in any way at all and way, way more strongly than before reading the book.
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