On Feb 12, 2:25 am, Dare <
clydad...@gmail.com> wrote:
>On Sunday, February 10, 2013 2:45:23 PM UTC-5, casey wrote:
>> On Feb 8, 1:05 pm, "Ganesh J. Acharya" <
ganeshjacha...@gmail.com>
>>
>> wrote:
>>> On Friday, February 8, 2013 1:17:33 AM UTC+5:30, Dare wrote:
>>>> "Ganesh J. Acharya" <
ganeshjacha...@gmail.com> wrote
>>>>> Birth perhaps is a split personality with a new body?
>>>> What is death?
>>>> Is the personality subsumed into the One?
>>>
>>> Perhaps, but is there a way to ascertain that?
>>
>>
>> Only if, or until, science can we get a handle on consciousness
>> can we get an answer.
>>
>>
>> Somehow your inner life must be like mine at a fundamental
>> level even if different brains means a different experience.
>
>
> Do other animals also share some fundamental sameness with
> us... even with a (probably) vastly different experience?
I can't see any reason they would not have an inner life
but until we understand the conscious function as opposed
to processes that do not self monitor ...
There doesn't seem to be any "conscious function" with
regards to our cerebellum (that cabbage like part of the
brain we share with reptiles) and blindsight seems to
flag the need for a cerebral cortex as required to have
a mind function.
> Do other animals have some kind of "personality"?
I see different personalities in cats.
I would not relate that to having a mind function.
> (or a unique individual "batality" or "dolphinality"?) :-)
Different species have behaviours common to their species
and indeed species can have sub groups separated by their
common behaviors. Male/female are two such groups.
But again I don't see that as relevant with regards to
having a mind function.
Directed learning requires a mind function.