Human Consciousness

How it works

Comparisons

Highlighted claims

• Unlike humans, animals such as turtles and orangutans have no capacity to reflect on their own motivational structure or design a coherent life. — Humans as Cybernetic Systems: Conflicting Goals and the Rarity of Integration
• The absence of self-reflection in non-human animals means they also lack the internal conflict that arises from competing goal categories. — Humans as Cybernetic Systems: Conflicting Goals and the Rarity of Integration