On Sun, Jan 07, 2018 at 04:03:19PM +1100, Bruce Kellett wrote: > > That relies on a particular classification of 'animals'. I consider that > many birds and fish (as well as most mammals) could well be conscious. > Insects, arachnids, and nematodes might well be different -- but they are > 'animals' only in the most general sense that they are alive and not plants.
They are animals in the normal scientific sense of the term. There are many things that are alive, but are neither animals or plants. Fungi for example, or the various sorts of bacteria. -- ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Dr Russell Standish Phone 0425 253119 (mobile) Principal, High Performance Coders Visiting Senior Research Fellow hpco...@hpcoders.com.au Economics, Kingston University http://www.hpcoders.com.au ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to everything-list+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to everything-list@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/everything-list. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
