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Animal consciousness

rick said:
The language barrier exists, obviously, and it's massive.
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Right, but it at the same time illustrates the ways in which some apes have become 'partly human'. To some extent, we are the social relationships in which we're embedded.


I know may cat wonders what he's going to have for dinner because when i make the noise for food time, he comes running and he'll be trying to see in the bag.. if i pull out a tin he loses almost all interest whereas if i pull out a pouch he's loving it..
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I think that this, however, is a more clear example of operant conditioning. We have no access to the cat's subjective experience of this conditioning, but I would expect it to fall short of "wondering". It could just be that the cat finds himself impelled to seek in a certain manner in response to certain stimuli, lacking all awareness of why.

ebola

ebola
 
How does it differ from the barrier between two people sharing a particular language? What about comparison with exchange by humans with different native tongues? This might be a good (re)starting point.

ebola
 
Well there wouldn't be a language barrier between two people who spoke the same language ;)

Interesting. I'd hypothesise that if a person was kept as Kanzi was / is and was treated in the same way, that they could become a very similar being (consciously).

It'd be interesting to work out what part/s of the brain are active when asking questions like "why?" and then looking for a similar pattern in active regions of great apes when asked "why?" provoking questions..

They have the same neuronal structures as us so i fail to see why they wouldn't experience consciousness on a VERY similar level to our own.
 
I tend to agree with Foreigner.

I have a "pet" that I consider more a friend and member of family. He is my boy! :D

I'm pretty sure that there are many people that feel similarly about their animal companions.

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