On 26 May 2013, at 13:29, Evgenii Rudnyi wrote:
"The absence of a neocortex does not appear to preclude an organism
from experiencing affective states. Convergent evidence indicates
that non-human animals have the neuroanatomical, neurochemical, and
neurophysiological substrates of conscious states along with the
capacity to exhibit intentional behaviors. Consequently, the weight
of evidence indicates that humans are not unique in possessing the
neurological substrates that generate consciousness. Non-human
animals, including all mammals and birds, and many other creatures,
including octopuses, also possess these neurological substrates."
http://fcmconference.org/img/CambridgeDeclarationOnConsciousness.pdf
Always a pleasure, if not some relief, to hear that.
My opinion, for what is worth, is that all animals are conscious, and
the one described above are already self-conscious, and "potentially
Löbian" (meaning: like you, me, and Peano Arithmetic).
Are plants conscious? I don't know.
Bruno
http://iridia.ulb.ac.be/~marchal/
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