Different in degree or kind: animal minds (Introduction)

by David Turell , Saturday, February 20, 2016, 14:33 (2981 days ago) @ dhw

dhw: There are two points at issue here, arising from articles by Greer and O'Hear which you quoted as support for your beliefs. Firstly, Greer denies that animals have these emotions. -You keep missing what was to me the key point of the article point. Nagel's thoughtful book, What it is like to be a bat. We do not know what an animal feels when he shows fear, other than the simple statement, he is obviously afraid'-> dhw:We are hugely sophisticated animals, the “raw emotions” are not anthropomorphizations but inherited characteristics, and these and other common characteristics are the basis of what you have so aptly described as our “evolutionary extensions”.-This sentence shows me that we are beginning to come to a meeting point of opinion. We are vastly different from animals with some of the same basic emotions in our reactions to events.