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HAVING
ACQUAINTED OURSELVES
WITH THE MIND - AND WITH HOW LITTLE
WE REALLY KNOW ABOUT IT - WE CAN RETURN
TO THE QUESTION OF WHETHER OTHER ANIMALS HAVE MINDS?
Some animals, such as dogs, certainly pass a modified version of the Turing
Test! When humans try to determine whether an entity is conscious, what we usually look for
is not mathematical aptitude or good memory, but rather the ability to create emotional relationships with ùs!
People sometimes do develop deep emotional attachments to all kinds of fetishes like sticks & stones, weapons,
cars and even underwear, but these attachments & one sided and never develop into relationships?
The fact that dogs can be party to emotional relationships with humans convinces
most dog owners that dogs are nòt like mindless automata! This however,
won't satisfy sceptics, who point out that
emotions are algorithms, and that
no known algorithm requires
consciousness in order
to function
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