Animals like dogs and cats are probably conscious but not all that conscious
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Which isn't necessarily saying much because human consciousness develops gradually in children
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And we're less conscious ourselves than we think we are, which is why our memories of our lives are so imperfect
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A lot of the "Gotcha" arguments about consciousness from believers in the soul are undermined by accepting it's a variable quality
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But yeah dogs and cats have memories, they learn, they just do so on a weaker level than we do
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Dogs you can tell put together more of a "story" of their lives than cats because of the demands of being a social species
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Half the jokes from cat owners are about how they don't quite seem to learn from experience
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The part about "acting conscious" probably has a lot to do with human consciousness being partly tied to empathy
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Consciousness is a story you tell yourself about how you feel right now -- and we learn to tell that story through social signals
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And we make pets out of animals that give off emotional signals that we're attuned to
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So it's easier to imagine the internal consciousness of a cat than a lizard even though in both cases we're probably wrong
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Replying to @arthur_affect @BootlegGirl
We agree with most of this. We really feel the complexity of sensory data is overblown.
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Oh hey, so I'm in Twitter jail. This is BootlegGirl still talking because teh evil bird website hath censored me
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