I find it hard to imagine being conscious but unable to control any part of your body as anything but a terrible nightmare. Shut-in would suck, higher consciousness or not.
this post was submitted on 01 Oct 2023
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It's a good post, and I was thinking the same long ago also.
Another idea is also about the physical reality we live in.
Plants - Level 1. No emotions or intelligence, just existence.
Animals - Level 2. Primitive emotions. Some intelligence.
Humans - Level 3. Emotions and intelligence.
Level 4+ is non physical. Humans don't recognize this realm nearly at all, except for quick visits using Astral Projection. Small amount of people go here when they die. Most continue at level 3.
This also goes for the universe. Humans only see the physical part of the universe, and completely miss out on the non physical parts of it.
Not saying this is true, but it's there my mind has wandered sometimes.
This is also why people feel empty inside, because physical stuff is not enough for us to feel happy. The spiritual part is starved at level 3 for most of us. Feels like there is no meaning. Because our entire world is focused on just the physical.
What kind of organism would want to wage war on itself? Kill and mame other "cells?" But while there may be the possibility of an emergent world consciousness, a "hive mind" if you will, I'd imagine it'd be a slow processing one.
This seems to just be rehashing the logic of simulation theory without considering that most of those levels of consciousness are not capable of reflection remotely similar to what we experience even just to consider this question.
We're all yeast.