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From: lee@uhccux.uhcc.hawaii.edu (Greg Lee)
Newsgroups: comp.ai
Subject: Re: Thought/Emotion/Feeling
Message-ID: <2986@uhccux.uhcc.hawaii.edu>
Date: 11 Jan 89 13:11:02 GMT
References: <1994@cadre.dsl.PITTSBURGH.EDU>
Organization: University of Hawaii
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From article <1994@cadre.dsl.PITTSBURGH.EDU>, by geb@cadre.dsl.PITTSBURGH.EDU (Gordon E. Banks):
" ...  I would bet
" that many of the great apes are conscious.  They seem to display behavior
" indicating they are.

Not if you follow along with Jaynes' ideas about what sorts of behavior
can be performed unconsciously, since this includes most human
behavior.  Remember, the authors of the Odyssey and the Old Testament
were supposedly unconsious.

Jaynes' hypothesis seems to me to have the clear implication that
there are living peoples who go through their lives unconscious.
Yet Jaynes offers no evidence that this is so, and it is pretty
implausible.  An anthropologist would be the best authority on
this point, at any rate.

		Greg, lee@uhccux.uhcc.hawaii.edu