> Animals may have consciousness of some kind, we don’t and probably will never know, but they don’t have reflective self consciousness because they do not use language.
That's a strange thing to say.
E: i.e. saying that animals don't use language. They do, of course.
sunnyata t1_iv05few wrote
Reply to The meaning crisis and language II — We need to ‘believe’ myth and metaphor in order to understand ourselves by Melodic_Antelope6490
> Animals may have consciousness of some kind, we don’t and probably will never know, but they don’t have reflective self consciousness because they do not use language.
That's a strange thing to say.
E: i.e. saying that animals don't use language. They do, of course.