RE: Is God a logical contradiction?
February 10, 2020 at 11:07 am
(This post was last modified: February 10, 2020 at 11:37 am by John 6IX Breezy.)
Great, I'm fine with just saying you have a feeling that animals have a conscience.
Random P.S:
The illusion, as you called it, is important because the deck is stacked against us. Your brain is designed to see intentions and mental states in others, not through logical deduction, but through projection. Mirror neurons are at the center of this, bridging the gap between the sensory and motor systems. You understand the behaviors of others by embodying the perception, and running a simulation of it as if you were the one doing it. This means that your inferences of other minds is entirely biased with your own. This is also perhaps why it's easier to imagine that apes have a conscience, but it becomes progressively harder to do so the less the animal looks like us. In part because they activate our mirror neurons less and less, and we project ourselves unto them less and less.
Random P.S:
The illusion, as you called it, is important because the deck is stacked against us. Your brain is designed to see intentions and mental states in others, not through logical deduction, but through projection. Mirror neurons are at the center of this, bridging the gap between the sensory and motor systems. You understand the behaviors of others by embodying the perception, and running a simulation of it as if you were the one doing it. This means that your inferences of other minds is entirely biased with your own. This is also perhaps why it's easier to imagine that apes have a conscience, but it becomes progressively harder to do so the less the animal looks like us. In part because they activate our mirror neurons less and less, and we project ourselves unto them less and less.
