39. Clive Wynne, Animal Consciousness, Making Friends With Skeptics
2008-03-26
Guest: Dr. Clive Wynne, on animal behavior research, our tendency to anthropomorphize animal behavior, and whether animal consciousness is an illusion:
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to me, consciousness is inevitability linked to language. I see there are problems with that viewpoint. I see this as just a tentative intellectual resting place… therefore, since I’m convinced that no other species has language, I don’t other species can be said to be consciousness in the way we are”.
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