Ants Are Not Conscious
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Ants Are Not Conscious
Anthropic reasoning is a form of statistical reasoning based upon finding oneself a member of a particular reference class of conscious beings. By considering empirical distribution functions defined over animal life on Earth, we can deduce that the vast bulk of animal life is unlikely to be conscious.
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Open Journal of Philosophy
سال: 2013
ISSN: 2163-9434,2163-9442
DOI: 10.4236/ojpp.2013.31001