Consciousness involves a lot more than intelligence. https://t.co/4Ls9VZQHyl
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Why are folks always confusing sentience (can suffer) with sapience (can reason)?
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I think Descartes made that mistake: “I think therefore I am.” In reality, consciousness precedes thought. Thoughts are just some of the contents of consciousness.
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Because they dont know the difference and have no idea what the latter even means
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They know the difference.
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I blame transformers. Optimus Prime - “Freedom is the right of all sentient beings.”
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Star Trek, I reckon.
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Because we aren’t educated on sapience in school. Sentience and sapience, at least in the american public school system, are taught as the same thing.
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It's a reasonable approximation. Higher intelligence correlates with great sapience and capacity to suffer. Killing chimps is worse than killing pigs, which is worse than killing chicken, which is worse than killing shrimp.
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The both start with a S and end with an Ence.
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ideology
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Animals can suffer
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