Panpsychism is a faith, like materialism; its assumptions and assertions are not “value-free.” We are likely to be unpacking them for some time.
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The researchers, refreshingly, made clear that they were NOT making unsubstantiable claims about mouse self-awareness; they were studying neural wiring.
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Efforts to relate insect consciousness to the human type are doomed because the key features of human consciousness are abstract thinking and moral choice.
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Octopus information-gathering is fundamentally different from that of intelligent mammals. Are comparisons in intelligence even meaningful then?
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When fish and ants pass the test for “a higher sense of self” — but dogs and even kids in some cultures don’t — we should ask some questions
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It ended sadly. No one has ever been able to give chimpanzees human minds — the real goal all along, surely — because the human mind is not a material thing.
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The war on the basic fact that humans are different from other life forms is leading researchers down some very unusual paths.
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If a complex neurology like that of the mammal was a fluke, what are the chances of a completely different complex neurology happening by chance again?
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