Consciousness; brain's role (Introduction)

by dhw, Friday, July 15, 2016, 12:30 (3052 days ago) @ David Turell

dhw: Like you, I agree with most of this, except for the following gross example of human self-centredness:-“Only a human being thinks or has emotions or has perceptions. Brains don't think or emote or perceive. Brains do organ things. People do people things.”-dhw: Other animals think, have emotions and have perceptions, and other animals do other animal things.-DAVID: Not to the degree humans can, by a vast gulf.-Animal perceptions are often vastly more acute than human perceptions, we cannot measure emotion, but I agree with you that human thought exceeds that of our fellow animals by a vast degree. That is not the same as saying that “only a human thinks or has emotions or has perceptions.”