On Feb 26, 2007, at 1:25 PM, Paul Brandon wrote:
...The full argument I was referring to would be:
Only humans are conscious
Pigeons are not human
Therefore pigeons are not conscious.
This tells us nothing that we didn't already know about
consciousness (and little about pigeons ;-).
We need some data that demonstrates that only humans are conscious;
not simply the assertion.
I am not at all surprised that I fully agree with Paul.
Peter
Peter Harzem, B.Sc.(Lond.), Ph.D.(Wales)
Hudson Professor Emeritus
Department of Psychology
Auburn University
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