sentient

Space/Science » in reply to Animals are aware of themselves!

sentient

FrankC — 8/9/2008 6:06:33 PM (archived)

is defined as awareness and animals have that on some level but I imagine that Martha means awareness of our mortality. I doubt that anyone not a member of PETA believes that animals have any awareness beyond today.

Do you suppose that they are aware of the future?

The whole thread (29 posts)

IEEE Spectrum Articles on "The Singularity" - phil - 8/7/2008 2:32:28 PM
- Rodney Brooks, MIT, discusses the future, 2007 - JEKing - 8/9/2008 2:07:43 AM
- Uploading is copying, not transfering - Raoul - 8/8/2008 7:58:54 AM
  - It is difficult to say - FrankC - 8/8/2008 1:59:32 PM
    - Still - Lee - 8/8/2008 4:20:52 PM
      - Actually, Goldfish DO have long-term memory. - nick hoffman - 8/10/2008 10:24:02 AM
        
        re: Actually, Goldfish DO have long-term memory. - alcaray - 8/10/2008 5:16:19 PM
      - That does not follow. - alcaray - 8/8/2008 9:35:09 PM
        
        I'm not saying I know. - Lee - 8/8/2008 10:24:31 PM
        
        I think Occum's Razor... - alcaray - 8/9/2008 12:01:53 AM
        
        re: I think Occum's Razor... - Marcia - 8/9/2008 6:02:44 AM
        
        very well said marcia ;) (n/t) - lance - 8/10/2008 6:20:28 PM
        
        Honestly, I doubt... - alcaray - 8/9/2008 7:31:09 AM
  - What is consciousness? - Lee - 8/8/2008 11:57:13 AM
    - re: What is consciousness? - JEKing - 8/8/2008 6:06:26 PM
    - We are what we remember - Raoul - 8/8/2008 5:43:14 PM
      - re: We are what we remember. - It is more than that, it's called 'self awareness'. (n/t) - Marcia - 8/9/2008 6:25:04 AM
        
        Animals are aware of themselves! - Raoul - 8/9/2008 8:26:37 AM
        
        sentient - FrankC - 8/9/2008 6:06:33 PM
        
        Among animals - Raoul - 8/10/2008 1:42:35 PM
        
        Smaller... - Adam - 8/13/2008 8:34:02 AM
        
        awareness and self-awareness are relative simple emergent qualities of intelligence - Sawyer - 8/10/2008 12:35:18 AM
        
        re: awareness of our insignificance.... - Raoul - 8/10/2008 1:52:45 PM
        
        typo-Marcia of course (n/t) - FrankC - 8/9/2008 6:08:27 PM
      - It's more than that. - Lee - 8/8/2008 6:14:31 PM
- artilects, etc. - JEKing - 8/7/2008 10:05:48 PM
- I wish they would hurry - FrankC - 8/7/2008 6:34:09 PM
- That's really quite amazing. - Bowser - 8/7/2008 4:47:02 PM
  - re: That's really quite amazing. - lance - 8/10/2008 4:50:46 PM

Recent posts

On this day in Space/Science

The whole thread (29 posts)