`Human Consciousness: Role of the unconscious (Humans)

by David Turell , Monday, February 15, 2016, 18:50 (3202 days ago) @ dhw


> dhw: BBella and I are simply trying to sort out the linguistic mess, which has led to your claiming that difference in degree (capacity, like magnitude, is another difference in degree) = difference in kind. All species (broad sense) are different in kind, and all species have different degrees - sometimes massively so - of intelligence [and of manoeuvrability, adaptability, perception, social organization] etc. Simple.-I continue to disagree, having read Adler's whole book on the subject. For example we have inherited instinctual behavior in evolution just as animals have, but we have the distinct advantage of being able to reason and control them when they are not appropriate. You are looking at patterns like the Pentadactyl limb type. Our bodies may look the same but our immaterial thought patterns are totally different than lower organisms. Different in kind.