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> Dogs clearly have consciousness. Consciousness is not exclusive to humans. that is not very clear to me, care to explain how we know dogs have consciousness?
by yeaman1231 6y ago
> Dogs clearly have consciousness. Consciousness is not exclusive to humans.
that is not very clear to me, care to explain how we know dogs have consciousness?
- jacobush 6y agoThey show (to me) pretty clear signs of being able to imagine people and things not in their presence, for one thing. Spend enough time with dogs, and it becomes hard work explaining away that they are conscious, and most of the arguments you would come up with could be used to explain away that your neighbour is conscious, too.
- qubex 6y agoYou can’t prove that your neighbor is conscious. It’s the old “zombies hypothesis” from Philosophy Of Consciousness 101.
- treesprite82 6y agoSince we're talking about consciousness right now - doesn't that mean it must have at least some impact on the physical world for our physical selves to even know about it? Just from that, I don't see how it's conceivable something could be physically identical if it lacks consciousness.
- srtjstjsj 6y agoBy that argument my home security system is conscious.
- stagehn 6y agoWe can't have much more confidence that other humans are conscious (solipsism) than we can that dogs are conscious. We could say that other humans have (1) a similar brain to us and (2) we are conscious, then say the corollary (3) other humans are conscious, is likely true. But I could make the same argument for dogs, only premise (1) is slightly weaker.