On Mon, Jun 04, 2018 at 02:48:01PM -0700, Brent Meeker wrote: > > It's a necessary feature of intelligence. Intelligence requires "what-if" > modeling of situations in order to foresee consequences. Even a the lower > animal level this implies modeling oneself in the simulation. In higher, > social animals it includes being able to put yourself in the place of others > in order to anticipate their repsonses, i.e. having a theory of mind.
Not many species of animal appear to do this. But yes, I think the evolutionary account is valid, and goes by the name of Machiavellian Intelligence theory. But this implies that consciousness is identified with self-awareness? -- ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Dr Russell Standish Phone 0425 253119 (mobile) Principal, High Performance Coders Visiting Senior Research Fellow [email protected] 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 [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/everything-list. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
