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EP 178 Anil Seth on A New Science of Consciousness

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Do Dogs and Cats Have a Self Selfhood?

Dogs and cats don't have the aspects of self animal selfhood that we might impute. Orangutans do, gorillas do, the odd elephant does, dolphins may do. Very few animals do. Whereas for us, it's entirely natural after a certain age. So their sense of self is different. And I think we overestimate it because of course we've trained over many, many generations,. these animals to respond to us in ways that give us the impression there's a sort of individual self going on there.

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