The second element to consciousness is excerptation. This is the ability to recall selected descriptive elements of a particular concept relevant to our experience. For example, if I ask you to think of an amusement park, you may first think of a Ferris wheel, a dart game you were good at, or maybe the shady looking carny who once stood in front of the balloon targets in order to prevent you from winning the good prizes. In all these cases, you are taking an excerpt from the total experience as representative of the whole.…
Can animals really think? Can they make decisions based on information? For years, scientists have debated these questions. Now many of them believe that some animals have the brain power to understand new situations, make decisions, and plan ahead. many animals adapt their behavior to the challenges they face either under natural conditions or in laboratory experiments. For example, on other parts of Africa chimpanzees select suitable branches from which they break ofg twigs to produce a slender probe, which they carry some distance to poke it into a termite nest and eat the termites clinging to it as it is withdrawn. Apes have also learned to use artificial communication systems to ask for objects and activities they want and to answer simple…
A person’s perception is ever changing. I explain perception as the way a person interprets and organizes information they receive and put it into context. Simply, perception is the totality of a person’s points of view, or their point of view on anything specified. It can be said that the earliest stages of one’s life can be the most influential on their development of perception. Jean Piaget, a Swiss psychologist/philosopher (Known as the “Father of Developmental Psychology”) suggested that children actively organize and adapt their thoughts to gain an understanding of the world. People gain the ability to perceive and create our own independent thought while we are children, unconsciously practicing perception on small things that only a child could see as important. During early adolescents the amount of things we gain perceptions on increases, and we gain our first perceptions of the world.…
Humans and animals are two different things; however, they can be the same. We consider ourselves different from animals because we don’t walk on all fours, don’t eat off the ground, we have manners, we know the difference between right and wrong, and we have free will. Although, animals have the ability to do what they want when they want,…
Neuroscientists believe that consciousness emerges from the interatcion of the individual subcounsicos brain events like a chord that is created from…
Conscious - Where we actively think and perceive things around us. It is what we are currently aware of and can recall.…
Consciousness: awareness of the outside world and one’s own mental processes, thoughts, feelings, and perceptions…
. Consciousness consists of a random flow of thoughts, feelings, memories and sensations that pass freely through our mind that's endless and that there is never a gap between two thoughts.…
consciousness does not fall into these areas, but we will see and are aware of similar body signs.…
First of all, The Time Magazine article, “Can Animals Think?” by Eugene Lindon relates several accounts of remarkable animal intelligence. In one example, an orangutan named Fu Manchu escaped from his cage at the Omaha Zoo by picking the cage’s lock with a metal wire. By using his intelligence and observation skills, Fu Manchu was able to extricate himself and his family from their cage so they could enjoy an afternoon of freedom. He also saved the wire for future use, further revealing the ability to plan ahead, an unmistakable, higher order thinking skill. Another example of animal intelligence is shown by the story of Orky, a killer whale who helped save his baby by positioning his body as a platform for workers trying to reach, to assist the struggling baby. Orky assessed the problem and devised a solution for getting help to his offspring. He also exhibited the same concern and emotion towards his baby as a human parent would to a child. When confronted with a problem, these animals demonstrated high level cognitive skills.…
There are various states of consciousness; the one that people spend the most time in is waking consciousness, the alert state that people are in when they are awake. Other times people are in another or altered state of consciousness. In the following, the four types of altered states of consciousness and their behaviors will be examined.…
Most people associate feelings and emotion with only human beings, not with nonhuman animals. Less than 41% of people believe that nonhuman animals have emotions and are capable of displaying and acting on them, similar as to what humans would do (Livescience). There are many signs pointing towards the conclusion that nonhuman animals are also sentient beings. Specifically, scientists said that all vertebrates are in some way sentient beings, ranging from birds to fish, and reptiles to mammals. Animals are able to express their varying emotions through audible sounds, body gestures, and animal-specific stereotypical behaviors.…
Umwelt can be described as how a human or nonhuman animal describes the world around them. In a sense, it is how the organism perceives the world through their eyes. Even though we may share the same surroundings, we as humans, do not share an umwelt with nonhuman animals. In De Waal’s book, “Are We Smart Enough to Know How Smart Animals Are?”, he gives me a better understanding of the term Umwelt. He explains his experience with raising jackdaws, and their ability to fly. De Waal’s enters the world of flying by viewing them on a daily basis, this leads him to feel like he is a part of their species. Humans will never be able to experience flight like a bird, due to many foreseeable circumstances. By interacting with the species on a daily…
ANIMAL INTELLIGENCE MUHAMMAD DZUL HUSSAINI BIN HANAFI KB1309FD4722 CHIMPANZEE INTRO Chimpanzees, sometimes colloquially Chimps, are two extant hominid species of apes in the genus Pan. The Congo River divides the native habitats of the two species.…
Eugene Linden in the Time magazine article “Can Animals Think?” claims that animals can think. They will probably do their best thinking when it serves their purpose, not when some scientist asked them. Linden supports his argument by describing, using anecdotes, how animals use intelligence to benefit themselves. The author’s purpose is to point out how animals use their intelligence so the writer may gain insight into animals their awry. The author writes in informative tone for time magazine. I I learned that animals can use deception and trickery. This article, “Can Animals Think?” is important because they know how and when do their needs. Linden stated, “It was the wire lock pick, bent to fit between his lip and gum and stowed there between escapes.” This illustrates that the orangutan tried to escape using his abilities. Linden also stated, “But the next time the weather was nice, Fu Manchu escaped again.” This points out that animals can think for their own purposes. I I believe that Eugene Linden’s article “Can Animals Think?” is related to Richard Connell’s “The Most Dangerous Game” because both texts show the reason and instinct are two different things, these two pieces of writing assimilates that it can tell the same story but in different ways. For example in Linden’s article “Animals are more than wind-up toys that blinding respond to tempting treats” and in Connell’s short story, “The animal has nothing but his legs and his instinct” both shows a wrong way to judge animals.…