Re: Sensory and sensibility

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Ray:
>Doesn't the fact that animals can dream mean that
they have a self? I have
>less objections to your term 'self-awareness' even
though I'm not fond of
>it either. In any case Irene Maxine Pepperberg's
work with parrots
>demonstrates that these animals are capable of using
words if properly trained.

Indeed, IIRC it has been reported that cats have a REM
sleep-phase. But to infer from this that cats have
an actual abstract representation of other cats,
and of themselves... hmmmm, it may be on a very, very
crude level. I think it would be more likely that
REM sleeps with an abstract meaning occurs with
better equiped animals, like primates for instance.

Philip.

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