We all like to be acknowledged.
And that is what one conscious being can do for another.
We can acknowledge one another by validation or invalidation, by praise or criticism.
Consciousness is a two edged sword - it can cut either way.
And consciousness is also magical as I live in your consciousness and you live in mine. So we can do each other great good or great harm.
But as far as I know, homo sapiens is the only animal that lives inside consciousness.
This gives us an unbeatable advantage over all the other animals.
So it is probably fair to say that our shared consciousness makes us the largest animal on the planet.
So how we are conscious, and of what we are conscious, and how we use our shared consciousness, becomes the question.
First there was only inanimate matter.
Inanimate matter does not know of itself.
One day a set of molecules became aware of existence.
It was the first and the only thought.
The thought is division between inanimate and animate.
Inanimate division is separation.
Animate division is replication.
The fact is addition is already in the division, see.
Matter became animate the moment it became conscious of the fact.
Replication is the cause and the effect of thought.
Life is what is left. What does it mean?
It means to live is to dwell.
Manere, in Latin. Re-manere, to remain.
What remains?
Consciousness remains.
From Indo European root MAN, to remain.
MAN derives from MA. To think.
Consciousness does not question consciousness.
It does not share.
It is SAM.
SAM divides?
Only by replication.
SAM is the one and the only thought.