Quote Originally Posted by RandomGuy
dont think so, to some extent, I'd say humans are some of the only creatures which ask "why?"...

Consciousness's 'hardware' component wouldn't be there: in this case the human brain.. I don't think it(the same level of consciousness) could exist without our analytical nature.

Unlike other creatures, we don't really live off of instinct anymore. We have more depth than that,

If "you" were trapped in a goldfish body, your attributes would definitely not be the same as the human counterpart. You'd only be able to comprehend what you can physically. Like computers: you can't run vista on a 32mb ram, pentium 133 box... Sure some of the wisest fish maybe get a minor glimpse of their sense of existence, but i doubt it'd be anything compared to ours... In the same way, I'm sure some of the wisest humans get glimpses of stuff us normal folk can't even comprehend... For example, i'm sure many of you've read up on the "4th dimension, 5th, etc" theories... You can read it up and down and know everything about it, but we are not designed to comprehend it. Yet very few people can actually conceptualize it. I guess their spatial thinking hardware in their brain has some sort of variance from the norm?

Who knows... because the whole thing comes down to how you'd define "you" which I'm having trouble putting into words myself.
I also am having trouble putting what I think into words, though I understand what you're getting at and you seem to be on the same level.