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Originally Posted by tompe
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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It does not - because there is no evidence (nor can there be one) that we can actually decide what we are doing - perhaps we simply believe that we can but are really only steered by our body? There is no way of knowing this.
What I mean with this: We dont know many things - among those how *we* are working or thinking, much less the cognitive features of animals. So I think we should stop trying to differentiate ourselves from animals via those cognitive features.