Sender Spike
Mar 26, 2024

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"You want to say that all organisms have minds?"

No. I said that all minds are personal.

"I'd say that not all animals have personal minds."

Any mind, no matter how complex, is by definition personal.

"The key distinction here is between animals and people."

People *are* animals. Human is merely the only animal / species with meta-cognition (i.e. e.g. awareness of being self-aware) we know of.

"if you say all organisms are people"

No, I say that all organisms are persons. At least, all mammals and birds (though I'd personally go much further, alas, that'd be just anecdotal). To put it in another way, not all persons are people.

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