I looked there and didn't see to what you referred. I don't know why you didn't quote yourself in your reply above to remove ambiguity and save this step. If you want to proceed with this sub-thread, I'll need you to be explicit, something like, "Here's is my definition of [definendum]: '[definiens]'." I can work with that, but not what you posted instead.
I wish I could say that I could do the same with your words. As you know by now, I seldom know what you mean. I literally do not know what you mean by sudden (or gradual), language, life, or consciousness. You can fix that, but you'll need to provide definitions that allow me to correctly identify which things you would use such words with and which fall outside of the extension of your definition. Does cladking consider the sun alive or the pull of gravity a language between massive objects? Maybe. I can't answer. But I'll bet you can answer them both about me and every other poster on this thread.
Incidentally, what does cladking mean to you? Can I get a concise, direct answer such that I could explain it to somebody else? Maybe it means a fashion expert of some sort.
One, two, three, four, five, six, seven dwarfs.
Unique things can be counted.
On a related tangent, are you familiar with what countable and uncountable nouns mean in grammar? Furniture is an uncountable noun, but table and chair are countable, thus the furniture comprised one table and four chairs, but furniture itself isn't counted, as in there were two furnitures. Less is the adjective for uncountable nouns (less furniture, less money, less water) but fewer for countable nouns (fewer chairs, fewer dollars, fewer ounces), which is why this drives some language purists nuts:
They do to me.
Yet consciousness appears on nobody else's list of the qualities that define life. Being cellular does. Being organic does. Growth and repair do. Metabolism does. Reproduction does. But being aware doesn't.
