SkepticallyMinded said:
No they don't. If they have sufficiently complex nervous systems, they have consciousness. This is an anti-scientific view that you hold which is quite alarming. http://fcmconference.org/img/CambridgeDeclarationOnConsciousness.pdf http://www.cogs.indiana.edu/spackled/2010readings/griffin-speck-consciousness-evidence.pdf |
I think the only alarming view is when we ignore the limits and scope of our knowlege and jump to conclusions without having the data to support it all the way. I'm saying that we don't have enough knowledge.
"complex" is such a simple word that is being thrown around easily without any kind of explination. How, and why it is concidered more complex? Humans don't have the biggest brains, not the biggest brian to body ratio. Not even the most neurons which transmitting the impulses ( African elephants have more ). Whales and Dolphins have more complex aspects about thier brains than humans as well. None of these "complex" brains offer any other species a sense of morality, character, appreciation of beauty.... Conciousness in general. I took a quick look at these links, and as expected I saw some interesting observations about the intellegence of some animals. I will get back to them later but I'm not expecting much to be honest.
