Ursula Le Guin’s short story “Vaster Than Empires and More Slow” appears in her collection, The Wind’s Twelve Quarters. One of the questions it asks is, “How do we recognize consciousness?”

For this week, please choose a character or scene to analyze and then say how it answers that fundamental question of the story, “How do we recognize consciousness?” Also, why does it matter how we identify or define life? 250-500 Words