Re: [GZG] Bovine rebuttal

[Ken Hall <khall39@xxxxxxxxx>]

A somewhat related discussion appears to have arisen around intelligence and consciousness/sentience--the "what is consciousnees _for_?" question. Some (and this is not my field of inquiry, so I'm not taking sides except to say that I think it's for something) argue that self-awareness actually gets in the way. For fictional treatments, see Philip Watts's novel _Blindsight_ (has an extensive bibliography of academic references) and Charles Stross's novella _Missile Gap_.

 

Best,

Ken

United Systems

Up the Individual! ;-)

Donald Hosford <Hosford.Donald@xxxxxxx> wrote:

> Another issues comes up in how we recognize and rate as intelligence. 
> There have been long arguements about the prejudicial approach even in 
> rating human intelligence let alone assigning
>  ratings to animal 
> intelligences. Heck the dog vs. cat arguement usually hinges on this 
> concept.
>
> -Eli
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