February 04, 2005
can dogs think?
Natural History Magazine this month contains a review of a couple of new books: How Dogs Think: Understanding the Canine Mind by Stanley Coren, and If Dogs Could Talk: Exploring the Canine Mind by Vilmos Csányi. It's an interesting article, even if it doesn't answer the question any more than the books do. Can dogs think? Who knows?
The philosopher Daniel Dennett speculated about animal minds and the evolution of consciousness in his book Kinds of Minds: Towards an Understanding of Consciousness. I liked his idea that consciousness isn't something that you either have or not. Instead, there are different kinds and degrees of consciousness. It seems reasonable to say that a dog is sort of conscious and a little bit intelligent. Even if he eats poop.
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