Deep Thought QotW.

[Jognt]

The_Punisher Wrote:Well, if you people refuse to acknowledge the presence of souls. you can at least try to analyze the question of whether or not they have consciousness.

I.E. Are they aware that they are here?

Like Tomcat is talking about. He thinks that his cats like to be with him and obviously show this.

But is this possibly just programmed responses? The cats like to be petted and know they won\'t be petted at the Vet, so it doesn\'t like to go to the vet.

you just answered your own question.
EVERY animal in this world (including ourselves) can think, you have got smart animals and animals that are less smart (humans are the species with the most variety of dumb/smart people)
If you think about this question, you might aswell start to define what you mean by thinking, because almost everything we do in life, is not done by thinking but my following a scripted event, where your brain remembered what happened sometime else and applies that experience to that moment.

Just because animals dont speak english doesnt mean they cant think.

Humans have to stop claiming theyre sooo friggin intelligent..

by the way, this made me think of Biology class where my teacher said that if we wrote that animals could think in our exam, we\'d fail o_O
After that me and a friend convinced my teacher that they could think :-)