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Re: Books - Consciousness Explained (Daniel C. Dennett)

[(Anonymous)]

(He also claims that you need to recognize 'self' from 'other' in order to survive. I'm not sure this follows; you need to be able to recognize 'friend' from 'enemy', but I'm not sure you *need* a self/other distinction for that, or if it's just contingent. Hell, I'm not sure if it's even contingent.)

Re: Books - Consciousness Explained (Daniel C. Dennett)

[(Anonymous)]

He claims animals are sensitive to vertical symmetry, because back in the day, most things with vertical symmetry were other animals, and it was useful to know if one was looking at you; it might want to eat you, or you might want to eat it, or you might want to shack up. I need to look into whether this applies to horizontal symmetry; since he mentioned vertical, specifically, I assume not, but then if we were all in the sea at some point, you'd think both would be useful, otherwise a predator could just evade detection by rotating a bit.