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Animal Consciousness

Animal Consciousness

From the times of Aristotle the subject on Animal Consciousness has been discussed till today . Aristotle thought that animals cannot think like humans because of this reason they were considered as lesser to humans Consciousness is defined as awareness of one 's own internal and external feelings of himself . Although they are awake about some organisms most of the times they are unaware . If they are aware like us they have to be treated like humans with rights etc . Many psychologists thought that behavior comes as natural to animals like

human beings . If we have to say usually the human are the one 's who had power over all kinds of animals from to dog to lion (Nieman , n .d

Two types of consciousness intelligence : 1 .This type of consciousness intelligence comes when the living thing is alert . The other comes when the living thing got the intelligence of reorganization in that they react according to the environment . The third most consciousness intelligence is access consciousness is introduced by the Block (1995 .He thought that every animal posses the access consciousness without necessity of speech

There two there are two types of consciousness intelligence other than the above

1 . Phenomenal consciousness

2 . Self-consciousness

In Phenomenal consciousness they only know about the other kind of species living in same environment .It refers to knowledge of consciousness . Humans got the ability to see and to feel what is to be like other animal but not in animals because they got...

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