Give me a logical reason why humans have souls/conciusness/mind (whatever you wanna call it) but animals are biological robots.
Give me a logical reason why humans have souls/conciusness/mind (whatever you wanna call it) but animals are biological...
Nathan Sanders
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Levi Garcia
God.
Try look at any molecular pathway and not believe in god.
Dominic Ortiz
spoilers
(we don't)
((and we're also animals))
Asher Ramirez
Bicameralism operates with the same starting assumption you're starting from, that there's a fundamental difference between human consciousness vs. the cognitive processes of other animals in need of explaining.
It's borderline pseudoscience and not at all a standard psychology paradigm, but it makes for an interesting read anyway:
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The tl;dr on that hypothesized difference is that mankind wasn't conscious at all for a large chunk of history and it was a special kind of behavior that emerged from the precursor of bicameralism where the two brain hemispheres were more distinct from each other and the right hemisphere basically shouted command hallucinations which the ancient non-conscious people would follow without any self-awareness, up until the point when society got large and complex enough for this way of acting to no longer work well (e.g. there would begin to be inconsistencies between what your own god was telling you to do vs. what everyone else's were telling them to do) and this crisis of complexity led to a breakdown where people started becoming self-aware and talking to themselves instead of automatically reacting to verbal brain activity from their god hemispheres.
Sounds crazy as fuck, but Jaynes does a good job qualifying heavily what he means by "conscious" and walking you through all the ways people today aren't conscious yet are still engaging in X cognitive activity e.g. he uses the example of driving a car where you're not really deliberately doing anything and just going off of habit and has you imagine ancient people as on auto-pilot in that same way except constantly for their entire lives.
Ian Roberts
We have the brain capacity to perform much more complex cognitive tasks than other animals. Thus we can deduce and conceptualise a lot more from a situation than an animal could. This we could see as "human" consciousness. Animals have a consciousness as well but far more basic towards procreation and survival instincts.
Levi Butler
explain dolphins then.
many of what you call human, most animals also share it.
animals even enjoy music designed for their vocal ranges.
Brandon Smith
>implying every particle in the universe doesn't have a soul
Joshua Flores
Our brains simply can hold our instincts back enough that we have a limited type of free will in a sense.
Matthew Myers
>implying people arent biological robots
>implying we don't just feel like we make decisions instead of actually making them
I feel bad for you, OP.
Christopher Anderson
We almost certainly are biological robots, just very complex ones so there's an illusion of choice in the things we do. There's also the fact that anyone having this conversation is necessarily a human brain, so there's inherent bias in it. Eventually, advancing computing power will probably prove that humans are "robots" by the ability to predict a person's next thought or action based on all relevant variables.