34795Y125 They didn't see anything wrong with that

JUST
AS WE DON'T
SEE ANYTHING WRONG IN OPENING
THE LID OF A VENDING MACHINE AND OBSERVING ITS GEARS & CONVEYORS.
In the early 21st century there are still plenty of people who argue that animals have no consciousness,
Or at most, that they have a very different and inferior type of consciousness.

In order to decide whether animals have conscious minds similar to our own, we must first get a better under-
standing of how minds function, and what role they play? These are extremely difficult questions, but it is worthwhile
to devote some time to them, because the mind will be the hero of several subsequent entries!

We won't be able to grasp the full implications of novel technologies such as artificial intelligence if we don't know
about animal minds, and examine what science knows about minds & consciousness in general. We will thus try to focus
on examples taken taken from the study of human consciousness - which is quite a bit more accessible to us - and later
on return to (other) animals & ask whether what's true of humans is also true of our furrier & more feathery cousins?

To be frank, science knows surprisingly little about mind & consciousness. Current orthodoxy holds
that consciousness is created by electrochemical reactions in the brain,
and that mental experiences
fulfil some essential
data-processing
function?!
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