Are animals conscious? How new research is changing minds

Re:Are animals conscious? How new research is changing minds by newzisforsukas on Tuesday June 18, 2024 @12:54AM (#40714184)

Or they tried the strategy in the past, and they had learned behavior that by eating things at night, they can get away with it. If you read the methods of this study, they used dogs that lived as pets [1].

1. https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S00033...

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Re:Are animals conscious? How new research is changing minds by llamaimperative on Tuesday June 18, 2024 @08:28AM (#40717007)

And how do you think humans acquire a theory of mind other than learning behaviors and figuring out what works and what doesn’t?

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Re:Are animals conscious? How new research is changing minds by mannykannot on Tuesday June 18, 2024 @08:48AM (#40717207)

The question is one of what has been learned. It seems possible that an animal could learn, from experience, that outcomes can be different depending on whether it is light or dark, without developing any intuition as to why that might be so.

I'm all for the 'consciousness as a spectrum' view, but as TFA says, anyone looking for a eureka moment [in this matter] will be disappointed.

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