Animal Consciousness Debate
Comments debate whether humans are uniquely intelligent, conscious, or sentient compared to other animals, challenging anthropocentric views and highlighting animal sentience, emotions, and cognition in species like mammals, birds, and octopuses.
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Your comment seems to imply that there's something fundamentally different from humans and other animals.
Neither do other animals...? We're not all that different.
There are also lots of non self-aware human animals :P
So you think humans are not smarter than animals?
your argument makes a distinction between animals and humans. why?
People are a more intelligent type of animal but still animals.
Might be related to some people thinking the same of animals. An infant is not necessarily more intelligent than certain animals.
Are you sure no animals have intent?
A long time ago I came across this question [1] (probably through Hackernews): "What do you believe is true even though you cannot prove it." I found the question hugely fascinating. For me one answer is that some attributes which we think of as uniquely human, such as intelligence or consciousness, aren't actually so unique. I believe at least many mammals and possibly other animals (birds? some fish?) have some form of (perhaps basic) intelligence.Of course there is always a
Why are you assuming that humans are the only conscious animals?