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> I think, on the contrary, that if a lion could talk, that lion would have a mind so different from the general run of lion minds, that although we could under
by card_zero 1y ago
> I think, on the contrary, that if a lion could talk, that lion would have a mind so different from the general run of lion minds, that although we could understand him just fine, we would learn little about ordinary lions from him.
(More Daniel Dennett)
- PreHistoricPunk 1y agoThat makes any kind of insight into consciousness as a general term impossible though. That would mean we could not learn anything about human consciousness as such from studying specific persons.