X-Message-Number: 4191
Date: Tue, 11 Apr 1995 23:22:07 -0400
From: "Keith F. Lynch" <>
Subject: Re: SCI.CRYONICS comments

 writes:
> Since [feeling] probably exists in many lower animals, it should be
> found primarily in more primitive parts of the brain or in relatively
> simple functions...

You have no reason to think that lower animals have feeling, except:

1) By observing their behavior.

2) By knowing that their brains are built somewhat like human brains,
   and that at least one human brain has feeling.

You've already rejected 1 as a legitimate source of knowledge (i.e. the
much maligned Turing test).  That leaves 2.

But then it's not legitimate to reason that since animals and people
both have feeling, that feeling must be due to the brain parts which
humans and animals have in common, when you had no reason to think that
animals have feeling other than that their brains are similar to ours.

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