(June 10, 2014 at 9:05 am)mickiel Wrote: The request for me to stop the poetry is denied. Now, give me an exhaustive full explinatory reason why animals are conscious.
So, we're just going to dodge around my contentions regarding "I don't know"? I'd really like a response to that.
As to animals being conscious... they just are, by any reasonable definition. Animals can reason, they can learn, they can be taught, they can think and communicate amongst themselves; what more do you want? How are you defining consciousness?
Chimpanzees can even be taught to communicate through sign language. I'm not going to sit here and say that every animal is conscious because that'd be a gross oversimplification, but some are, even if they don't display the same level of intelligence as us humans. Let me ask you this: a human being with a developmental disorder, would you say they're still conscious? I mean, is this something you're defining along species lines to begin with, or is it a question of intellect rather than species?
That, plus the "I don't know" thing, please.
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