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The thing that higher animals and humans can do is imagine alternative futures, predict consequences, and choose to act accordingly. This would probably meet s
by Merrill 7y ago
The thing that higher animals and humans can do is imagine alternative futures, predict consequences, and choose to act accordingly. This would probably meet some definition of consciousness.
Classification, abstraction, language and logic are probably not common features except in very limited ways. So animals likely live in a world of continuous special cases.