[Arlo] > Just out of curiousity, would you say the consciousness of mosquitos > are analogous to an infant?
No, I think a mosquito operates only by stimulus/response, while an infant moves beyond this fairly soon. [Arlo] > A mosquito knows the food > it is ingesting is "not it", but I don't think it has any sense of > "who I am". I cant attribute even that small amount of knowledge to a mosquito. [Arlo] > the words and sounds and sights [humans] see are symbolic > representations of their world, and that by using those symbols the > power of a social world opens up to them. But I think words are symbols in a very differ sense than sounds and sights. The Wittgenstein part of me says our only criterion for having a self is having the concept of self provided by a language with the word self. Another part of me says any emergence of a distinction between me & not not me is evidence of self-consciousness. [Arlo] > (mutual of omAHA?... the shared buddhist moment?) Good one. Craig
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