Animal Consciousness - Paper
Animal Consciousness In “The Problem of Animal Consciousness: Do Horses Gallop in Their Sleep?” Matt Cartmill argues that concsciousness does not only contribute to humans, but to non-humans as well, animals. Consciousness has been prescribed as a human experience in spite of all of the evidence that has been showed that animals have consciousness. Philosophers and scientists believe that consciousness has no evolutionary history, because they think that humans are the only creatures that have it. Because nonhuman animals lack some mental abilities, we regard them as property, the only moral constraint that we observe on our use of other animals is an obligation not to make them suffer. But who is to say that animals don't have consciousness? Animals not only have consciousness, but some have more consciousness then some of us human beings. Thats why, Cartmill is attempting to try to persuade people, mainly philosophers and scientists, that animals have consciousness. Matt Cartmill strongly supports the idea that animals have consciousness. Sleep is something that we know that makes us consciousness as humans. Most animals don't sleep, but some do. When a human is sleep they are unconscious, but when they wake up they return back to their consciousness. The same should apply to animals. When animals sleep their are also unconscious, but when they wake up they return back to their conscious state of mind.For example: when a owner is being attacked by a stranger or killer, not only would a human help, but a non-human, animal, would also help to protect you. Being said, animals have mental lives something like ours. The waking state in animals is something like ours, which includes mental events and awareness of the world. They were trying to say that computer were more in tune with people than animals were. This is not true because there isn't any computer that can ever produce consciousness. Nothing science has ever produced comes near to and the