Angela Mendelovici: How Does Consciousness Connect us to Reality? Part II
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Can Animals Self Ascribe Beliefs?
In the case of animals, they they can't, i guess self, ascribed beliefs. It seems rather sophisticated mental activity to do that. And er babies can't yet do it. So does it follow that they don't really have any? Yeso,. Two parts of that's a great question, two parts of an answer. One is, ah, maybe it's easier to think about yourself. Maybe youdon't have to conceptialize yourself as a human being or a person or a conscou or something like that. But the second thing is to say, if they don't a to basically bite the bullet and say, well, they don't get to derive represent
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