Consciousness; brain's role (Introduction)

by dhw, Saturday, July 16, 2016, 10:09 (2838 days ago) @ David Turell

dhw: Like you, I agree with most of this, except for the following gross example of human self-centredness:-QUOTE: “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.-dhw: 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.”-DAVID: Animals sensory perceptions can be much more acute, nothing more. Explain your statement if it means more.-It does not mean anything more. It is part of my response to the author's statement. Allowing for all the different degrees, do you accept that animals think, have emotions and have perceptions, and that therefore his statement is completely, utterly, totally and absurdly wrong?