RE: Does the fact that many non-human animals have pituitary disprove Cartesian Dualism?
June 23, 2023 at 5:00 pm
(This post was last modified: June 23, 2023 at 5:04 pm by The Grand Nudger.)
Which is why we look for homologies in structure and behavior. If something has homologous structures that we know are involved in pain with us, and acts like us in response to the same stimuli, it's a fair bet it's going through something similar. Or it's just one gigantic well demonstrated co-ink-e-dink.
Let's drop the interspecies comparisons, though, since I guess that's what seems controversial? This line of reasoning is the basis for our conclusion that other people are "really there", too...rather than being bioautomata. If it's fair of me to suggest that you feel pain, it's fair of me to suggest that homologies are instructive. If you think it would be ridiculous of me to doubt whether or not you feel pain, then homologies are instructive.
Or...we may be the same species, with the same structures and the same behaviors...and maybe the same types of changes are recorded when we suffer the same types of damage...but that's all just a giant well demonstrated co-ink-e-dink and it would not be fair to suggest that you feel pain, because homologies are not instructive.
Let's drop the interspecies comparisons, though, since I guess that's what seems controversial? This line of reasoning is the basis for our conclusion that other people are "really there", too...rather than being bioautomata. If it's fair of me to suggest that you feel pain, it's fair of me to suggest that homologies are instructive. If you think it would be ridiculous of me to doubt whether or not you feel pain, then homologies are instructive.
Or...we may be the same species, with the same structures and the same behaviors...and maybe the same types of changes are recorded when we suffer the same types of damage...but that's all just a giant well demonstrated co-ink-e-dink and it would not be fair to suggest that you feel pain, because homologies are not instructive.
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