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- From: pmsc13sg@UMASSD.EDU (Stephen Grossman)
- Subject: Re: Searle on animal consciousness
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- References: <1993Jan24.024230.5977@sophia.smith.edu>
- Date: Mon, 25 Jan 1993 17:21:24 GMT
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- In article <1993Jan24.024230.5977@sophia.smith.edu>, orourke@sophia.smith.edu (Joseph O'Rourke) writes:
- >Searle says that "it seems to me a well-attested empirical fact
- >that dogs are conscious." [The Rediscovery of the Mind, p.74.]
- >I haven't read much about animal consciousness, and I would
- >be interested to hear the opinions of various philosophers on
- >the topic. Is it as uncontroversial as Searle implies?
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- SG Moderns, following Descartes' primacy of consciousness, confuse
- consciuousness w/self-conscioiusness. Conciousness is the widest fact here.
- There are many states of consciousness: sensation, perception, reason,
- emotion, imagination, etc, etc. Self-consciousness may be
- perceptual or rational. Only humans have self-consciousness. Brute animal
- behavior can be completely explained by perception. See Objectivism.
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