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Do you need imagination for Operant Learning and if so can Bacteria imagine
- fizan 9y agoIn the general sense processing of such learned behavior happens in the bacteria, the rodent and in humans. The processing in bacteria is simpler than the rodent. The rodents processing is simpler than the humans. But they all occur using chemical processes. So if we can extend the courtesy of imagination to rodents why not extend it to bacteria as well?
- qbrass 9y agoMice and humans are practically identical in comparison to bacteria. Even if there were some chemical process in bacteria that performed the same imagination function as the ones in the brain, we wouldn't know what it was to look for it.
- fizan 9y agoMice and humans are not identical. As we do not know what imagination in bacteria may be like the same applies for mice too. My point is whatever 'that' is, is not imagination (because imagination is only known to us). For other beings, it is something else.