In reply to Jed Rothwell's message of Fri, 16 Dec 2016 22:11:49 -0500: Hi, [snip] >My point being, that barely qualifies as conscious. Not as I defined it: >"Awareness of surroundings. Some ability to make choices . . ." It is more >like a set of complicated hard-wired reactions. The cricket mistakes a plastic >object for another cricket. Its perceptions and awareness of the surroundings >are very crude, compared to a bird or mouse.
Some birds are not much better. I had a little blue jay in mortal combat with his own reflection in the window during mating season. On the other side of glass I could sit with my face not six inches away from him and he still persisted. Regards, Robin van Spaandonk http://rvanspaa.freehostia.com/project.html
