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- From: nagle@netcom.com (John Nagle)
- Newsgroups: comp.ai.philosophy,sci.philosophy.tech
- Subject: Re: Searle on animal consciousness
- Message-ID: <1993Jan24.182108.10165@netcom.com>
- Date: 24 Jan 93 18:21:08 GMT
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- dpn2@po.CWRU.Edu (Damien P. Neil) writes:
- >I very much doubt it. My freshman philosophy teacher maintained that humans
- >are the only self-aware creatures on the planet, and that we perceive
- >conciousness in animals because we tend to judge all things by ourselves.
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- According to Sir John Eccles, author of "Evolution of the Brain",
- all the mammals have essentially the same brain organization. The
- differences between the mammals are quantitative, at least at the levels
- we can see with an electron microscope. Presumably there are degrees
- of "self-awareness" accordingly.
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- John Nagle
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