Sunday, October 5, 2008
Identity and Conscious
In the case with "Genie, a modern-day wild child", I looked at Genie as any other creature. She did not know how to talk, interact with humans, nor understand how to use her senses as we do. In the reading, they described her as a stange-bunny and other animal like characteristics. Is Genie still not a living creature and has feelings and a conscience? Couldn't all creatures have a conscience then? Just because they do not understand how to act the way humans have been taught to act for generations. We tough to understand if something is soft, while Genie may lick the object to learn if it is soft. What is your stance on whether other creature have a sense of deeper feeling and conscience than some people may give them? Humans sure enough talk about other creatures as lower beings compared to humans.
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This raises an interesting question: is our form of conciousness the only correct one? I think we would like to think so. Just because a creature does not think or at or is not aware of the same things we are does not mean that that creature is not concious. dont know how to spelll concious.
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