Thread: Seriousness What is it that makes us human?
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Old 05-02-2009, 01:26 PM   #115
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Originally Posted by tirsales View Post
but nor do we have any for human (at least not if you state that "pure reactions" on input is not a mental capacity).
I think I disagree. Self reporting using language and observing what people say and how they behave seems to me to give real and good evidence that we have mental models that include a concept of time and that we have the concept of preference.
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