Comment on Isn’t the use of strict behaviorism to explain animals kind of obnoxious?
Klear@sh.itjust.works 11 months agoYou can’t prove it for people either.
Comment on Isn’t the use of strict behaviorism to explain animals kind of obnoxious?
Klear@sh.itjust.works 11 months agoYou can’t prove it for people either.
Custoslibera@lemmy.world 11 months ago
You’re right we can’t.
What we can do though is make educated guesses about the biological structure required to support the thing we call consciousness I.e. a brain.
A mollusc does not have a brain so it’s reasonable to conclude it is not conscious in the same way as humans.
Now if you’d like to argue that the biological structures contained in a mollusc still are capable of containing a complex consciousness I’d be interested to understand that hypothesis and your evidence.