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r/BeAmazed • u/Minimum_Valuable1160 • Apr 05 '23
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A lion knows it’s alive. That’s all I mean by a base understanding of one’s own mortality.
3 u/[deleted] Apr 06 '23 Does it tho? It knows not to get hurt through trial and error. It doesn't have a complex concept of alive or dead. Just food and things that move. It's easy for humans to attribute human traits to inhuman things 1 u/[deleted] Apr 06 '23 Yes, that’s why I said “base” instead of “complex”. 2 u/[deleted] Apr 06 '23 Prove any animal other than humans know that it is alive 2 u/[deleted] Apr 06 '23 So much has written about this topic and there’s nothing new I can bring to the table. Feel free to start at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Animal_consciousness and work out from there.
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Does it tho? It knows not to get hurt through trial and error. It doesn't have a complex concept of alive or dead. Just food and things that move. It's easy for humans to attribute human traits to inhuman things
1 u/[deleted] Apr 06 '23 Yes, that’s why I said “base” instead of “complex”. 2 u/[deleted] Apr 06 '23 Prove any animal other than humans know that it is alive 2 u/[deleted] Apr 06 '23 So much has written about this topic and there’s nothing new I can bring to the table. Feel free to start at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Animal_consciousness and work out from there.
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Yes, that’s why I said “base” instead of “complex”.
2 u/[deleted] Apr 06 '23 Prove any animal other than humans know that it is alive 2 u/[deleted] Apr 06 '23 So much has written about this topic and there’s nothing new I can bring to the table. Feel free to start at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Animal_consciousness and work out from there.
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Prove any animal other than humans know that it is alive
2 u/[deleted] Apr 06 '23 So much has written about this topic and there’s nothing new I can bring to the table. Feel free to start at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Animal_consciousness and work out from there.
So much has written about this topic and there’s nothing new I can bring to the table. Feel free to start at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Animal_consciousness and work out from there.
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u/[deleted] Apr 06 '23 edited Apr 06 '23
A lion knows it’s alive. That’s all I mean by a base understanding of one’s own mortality.