Re: do animals psychologize?

Posted by gepr on
URL: http://friam.383.s1.nabble.com/do-animals-psychologize-tp7591762p7591811.html

But, really, all you're doing is dickering about the definition.  It doesn't make me grumpy at all.  In fact, I can agree wholeheartedly with you and still believe in qualia, because what you describe *is* what the word means: self-perception. No amount of sophist-icated, hermeneutics will make it useful, here.

But what's physical and for which falsifiable hypotheses can be formulated is *how* plants sense and react versus how animals sense and react.  So, again, if we can talk about *that*, then we might make progress to whether or not non-human animals psychologize.

On 09/17/2018 03:09 PM, Nick Thompson wrote:
> Gee.  I guess I don’t believe in qualia.


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