Re: Why Humans are Conscious

On Feb 6, 10:51 am, Guy A Hoelzer <hoel...@xxxxxxx> wrote:
in article eq5f3k$o2...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, claudiusd...@xxxxxxxxxxxxx at
claudiusd...@xxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote on 2/4/07 12:19 PM:





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?

If you raised a human with the exact same environment and set of experiences
as a chimp, do you think we could observe their ability to do calculus or
Sudoku?

Irrelevant.

I think the answer to the question above is not so obvious.

The question that matters is what would happen if a chimps was raised
in a human family.

Besides, any time some individuals claim something is "obvious" and a second
set of individuals claims it isn't; it isn't. :-)

It's obvious.


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