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Are you contending that somebody who grows up in complete social isolation would not be conscious? If so, that doesn't make sense. And besides, we currently hav
by Trasmatta 5y ago
Are you contending that somebody who grows up in complete social isolation would not be conscious? If so, that doesn't make sense. And besides, we currently have no way of knowing that consciousness actually exists in any being other than ourselves, so there would be no way to measure it to test your hypothesis.
Until we have some way of doing that, I think it's more rational to assume all humans in a non catatonic state have some level of consciousness.
- dominotw 5y ago> Are you contending that somebody who grows up in complete social isolation would not be conscious? I read GP's comment that in this case that someone wouldn't have a concept of consciousness in his consciousness.
- gshubert17 5y agoCould a person who grows up in complete social isolation learn (or invent) a language? If not, could such a person name things or have a way to think about maps and symbols (representations of things) in a way that could lead to consciousness?
- Trasmatta 5y agoThere are a number of interesting cases of people being raised without language, and then being studied later in life: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Language_deprivation https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Language_deprivation I think it's a massive, massive stretch to make the claim that any of them weren't conscious.