Custoslibera

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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Isn’t the use of strict behaviorism to explain animals kind of obnoxious?⁩ ⁨⁨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.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Isn’t the use of strict behaviorism to explain animals kind of obnoxious?⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I implore you to prove animals have a rich inner world filled with emotions as you’re describing.

  Observing behaviour that you think is ‘inner life’ is not satisfactory evidence to prove that the fish have a level of cognition required to experience complex emotions.

  To suggest that a mollusc has an ‘inner life’ is unscientific and goes against our current understanding of living organisms.

  People tend to way over anthropomorphise animals.