VXIII said:
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. |
The irony with you anti-scientific people is often times so profound that it boggles the mind wrestling with what it's like to maintain mutually exclusive perspectives simultaneously.
You cannot on the same hand declare that non-human animals do not have consciousness while simultaneously maintaining the position that we don't have enough knowledge to assess the situation. Congratulations, you just contradicted your own position.
All of the evidence to date supports the idea that some non-human animals have consciousness, but I'm sure some nobody on the internet has it all figured out, nevermind the countless published science and plethora of scientists who agree.
