> I always thought this was anthropomorphism. I have dogs and I thought dogs more just “are” rather than self aware. I'd consider it more from the perspective

> I always thought this was anthropomorphism. I have dogs and I thought dogs more just “are” rather than self aware. I'd consider it more from the perspective of Occam's razor and prior probabilities. You have a brain, you are alive, you have goals, make plans, learn, perceive the world, make predictions about the behaviour of other agents, and eat food. You are also conscious. My default assumption would be that anything else that does the former things would also have the latter trait, until I encounter some particular evidence that they don't.