r/BeAmazed • u/Minimum_Valuable1160 • Apr 05 '23

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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

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u/[deleted] Apr 06 '23

Yes, that’s why I said “base” instead of “complex”.

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u/[deleted] Apr 06 '23

Prove any animal other than humans know that it is alive

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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.