PHILOS 1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: East Los Angeles College, Deontological Ethics, Animal Ethics
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Some agreed upon definitions self-awareness and awareness. First extreme: that animals are not conscious, and don"t have good sensations, awareness is not present in animals. For descartes, animals are simply machines, they have quirks. Some view language as necessary for consciousness. Ex. lobsters don"t have consciousness, so even when they"re boiled alive, it"s not actual pain, it"s due to their shells. Second extreme: every sentient being has consciousness, birds, ants, plants, etc . Baars: every animal has consciousness to some extent. Young children, chimps, bonobos, orangutans, gorillas (?) Theory of mind people have separate minds, separate thoughts and desires. Dennett: perhaps the kind of mind you get when you add language to it is () Gallup: mirror self recognition entails concept of self and self-awareness. Povinelli: msr shows they have a concept of self, but not self awareness. Imitation allows for empathy imitation is how children learn. Cognitive empathy: recognizing someone is feeling an emotion.
