At 03:06 PM 27/07/2016, Jim Birch wrote: >Maybe in your case. My cat is certainly conscious - i.e. aware of and >responding to it's surroundings - but doesn't do a lot of symbols.
We were discussing this very thing yesterday --- sapient versus sentient. Animals are sentient. Humans are sapient as well. Machines - not so much. Although IBM is working on one. Jan I write books. http://janwhitaker.com/?page_id=8 Melbourne, Victoria, Australia [email protected] Twitter: <https://twitter.com/JL_Whitaker>JL_Whitaker Blog: www.janwhitaker.com Some psychopaths become serial killers, and other psychopaths become prosecutors. - Bob Ruff, Truth and Justice, June 2016 Sooner or later, I hate to break it to you, you're gonna die, so how do you fill in the space between here and there? It's yours. Seize your space. ~Margaret Atwood, writer _ __________________ _ _______________________________________________ Link mailing list [email protected] http://mailman.anu.edu.au/mailman/listinfo/link
