COGS 300 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Unicellular Organism, Multicellular Organism
7 Dec 2017
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The kinds of cognition we are familiar with are processes that organisms (like us) engage in. At least some cognition involves subjective experience or consciousness. A (philosophical) zombie is not a subject of experiences (is not conscious ) How do you know other humans are not zombies? . Do zombies know they are zombies? (they don"t say so. On the survey, they check no where it asks are you a zombie? ) I don"t know about you, though (in spite of all your lovely behaviour). So, understanding what it is for a human (or any biological individual) to be a subject of experiences seems to suggest that we must look to the fact that we are organisms (individual living things). An individual (something that can be a subject) is to be contrasted with a group, for example: a shark and a gam of sharks a cat and a clowder of cats.
