Lexicon of Arguments

Philosophical and Scientific Issues in Dispute
 
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I 168ff
Consciousness/Gould: an animal has no consciousness.
Human/Julian Jaynes: consciousness appeared late in evolution.
Homer’s Greeks, Hebrews no consciousness.
>Consciousness/Dennett, >Consciousness/Gould, >Ancient Philosophy, >Consciousness.
Dennett: consciousness is a product of cultural evolution.
I 170
Pinker: every aspiring programmer can write a self-correcting program, a robot, which recognizes itself in the mirror is not more difficult to construct than one that recognizes anything - ((s) so that is no feature of consciousness).
Information about objects extend over several areas of the brain - so there must be a linkage mechanism.
>Brain/Deacon.

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