Re: Why Humans are Conscious
- From: claudiusdenk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Sun, 4 Feb 2007 15:19:00 -0500 (EST)
On Feb 3, 12:00 am, dkomo <dkomo...@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Tim Tyler wrote:
claudiusd...@xxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
Sure. To some degree. But human consciousness is orders of magnitude
higher than that of any other species, most notably our closest
relatives, chimps.
You have access to a consciousnessometer?
Are you sure it's calibrated right?
Humans seem to be extremely similar to chimps in this
respect - as far as I can see.
Really? Can chimps work calculus problems too? And Sudoku puzzles?
[moderator's note: How would we know? -HAG]
How is it not obvious?
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