How can you tell if another person, animal or thing is conscious? Try these 3 tests
- Written by Tam Hunt, Affiliate Guest in Psychology, University of California, Santa Barbara
Researchers have ideas how to probe consciousness in another.agsandrew/Shutterstock.com
How can you know that any animal, other human beings, or anything that seems conscious, isn’t just faking it? Does it enjoy an internal subjective experience, complete with sensations and emotions like hunger, joy, or sadness? After all, the only...
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