richa14 Aug 2004

Of course personality depends on being conscious. Personality is what informs our reactions to the environment. That is what consciousness is for. To help us organise our behaviour outside the strictly hard wired - 'eat the brown berries in the forest, get bad tummy'

I dropped a caterpillar in a bowl of water, it wriggled around a lot (it was hardly going to survive). Should I attribute that to its tenacious personality. It is not conscious.