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CHAPTER 15

ANIMAL AWARENESS AND MENTAPATHS

TOPICS TO BE COVERED IN THIS SECTION The identity theory applies to animals as well as people Animals have mentapaths. Their mentapaths can be different than mens are. We can share certain portions of mentapaths with animals. Some animals can have mentapaths that have parmentapaths that are more advanced than mans. The reason for believing these ideas (proof). Some animals may have awarepaths

How does the concept of emergent properties apply to animals?

It is possible to have sub mentapaths in common with some animals as it is to have them with people because if we wish to know what it is like to be a snail for instance we may already know because within ourselves may be produced the mentapaths of a snail.

All animals that have nerves have mentapaths.

Mentapaths are not just the summation of sub mentapaths.

In certain cases animals and humans may share parts of submentapaths, the extent of this, science will have to find out.

What is animal awareness? What is an animal mentapath? What is an animal awarepath?

The identity theory also applies to other forms of life that live on earth. The same ideas apply to animals as well as to people.

To what degree animals other than man have mentapaths we do not know. It appears that there could be animals that have no mentapaths and all sorts of variations up to and exceeding mans mentapaths. There is no doubt that even within the human species there is great variance in mentapaths.

AREAS FROM OUTLINE

A.Less complicated forms of awareness

B.They may have more accurate forms of awareness.

Such as hearing at a higher or lower pitch -- other wavelengths of light etc. Having a device that can turn a change into nerve impulses that are connected to the brain -- the sense organ There is also differences in the structure of the brain so that different types of information can be processed differently and more efficiently.

C. Degree of animal awareness

D. Do they have emotions and feelings? From personal observation it would seem that some dogs for instance have almost a passionate love for people. This love can be toward one person or toward a group of people. It does not seem impossible that as dogs we domesticated by cave man the ones that were the nicest. They were feed and kept and the others we eaten or other wise disposed of before they reproduced. Trustworthiness, devotion, and many other qualities were and are valued by man. Showing affection and love toward ones master can certainly be valued traits of a dog. Does a dog actually feel love in the same way that a person does? A dog may feel love as much or more than a person does. But he may not be able to do some of the things that people do like speaking and complex thinking. So he may feel what we do he may not be able to incorporate those feelings in way that people can.

Animal mentapaths.

Wild mentapaths are different than domestic mentapaths in animals. When a person is around different types of animals one sees many different types of behavipaths that reflect different mentapaths. Domesticated animals don't seem to have the fear of man that wild animals do. Dogs and cats can it seems almost fall in love with their masters and maybe other types of domestic animals do the same. That instinct to do that may be bread in through breading. Even if they don't have the same feelings that people have when they fall in love, certain animals definitely behave like they are in love. Dogs may be the animals that love man the most and this may be because of breeding. Dogs are a big enough animal that they can do a lot of damage to people. They can even kill people. Because of this the mean animals that could not be trusted would be destroyed before they reproduced. Because dogs were not generally used as a major source of food for people they we developed for other uses such as hunting, companionship, protection, and alarms. Milk cows have been breed for three major reasons first for the production of milk. And second for the production of meat and third for the ease of handling when being milked and generally being taken care of. This causes a problem though. The milk cow has a mentapath that allows it to become tame with the right environment. It can be handled with out being fearful or apprehensive about people. But the bull having lost some of its apprehension of people can be hard to handle. Even a snail has a mentapath because it has neural working in its body. However, it does not have an awarepath. Because it is not aware of what it is doing. Maybe it does but its awarepath is very small.

How do our mentapaths differ from animals? It differs in both quantity as well as quality. But nov necessarily at the same time in the same way. For instance, dogs can hear and smell better than humans in general. They have an awareness that people do not have. Their mentapaths are thus different than ours but is this a difference in quality of mentapath or just merely a difference in quantity. Because we can also hear and smell but just not as well. As in most definitions there seems to be" gray areas where there is no clear boundary. We are definitely quality and quantity above a snail.

Directed and directing change is what consciousness is. The more complicated and interconnected the change is the more consciousness is produced. But, is all change producing of consciousness? Is a rock conscious? It has very little if any change where iv changes itself. But what of the larger picture more rocks over a longer period of time. Can we establish a changing structure like the brain with rocks over time. It would not be fast or dynamic and one area can not easily connect to another like a brain does.

Animals do have varying degrees and types of mentapaths. We might want to call them simi mentapaths because they usually won't be as complex as a human's. But what about the animals that have larger brains than we have? Do they have more complicated mentapaths than we do? Again the structure of the brain has a lot to do with the mentapath.

I believe that we share mentapaths with animals as we do with other people. For instance, when we experience an emotion an animal might also experience the exact same emotion. Because the animal does not have the same type of interconnections that we do the identity of the consciousness is more likely to diverge sooner that with people. Lets say that a dog feels love, is that love going to be the same as a humans feelings of love? Maybe the feeling is the same but the results are different and more complex.

Do two identical functioning animals have or produce the same mentapath and consciousness? Yes. for the same reasons that people do. Some people become very attached to their pets and become very unhappy when they die. If it were possible to make an exact replica of this animal would it be the same. If the owner did not know the difference he could not tell the difference because by definition the animal would look like the original and act like the original. Animals of the same species are more apt to share the same mentapath than are people. This is because the brain, the seat of consciousness is not as large in animals as it is in humans, so the possible conscious producing permutations of the brain are less.

Consciousness is produced when there exists parts of the brain that communicates with other parts of the brain through certain types of modifying connections. What do I personally see when I try to grasp my consciousness? My external senses are overwhelming when I am awake and the body that my senses perceive are that I that. I am however, aware of more to me than just my external senses. Internally produced sensations come to light but they are not as strong usually or as complete as the external sensations. So the brain can produce sensations that do not come from external sources. These internal sources can mimic all the external sensations but do not seem as strong, possibly as an evolutionary adaptation so that reality and our thoughts do not get confused even though they seem to do so in some people. Internal sensations can follow more of a story line than external stimulation. The brain has the ability to predict through these sensations what might happen causing us to keep out of trouble. If certain flows pattern of neural firings produce certain sensations the brain through certain flow back mechanism can produce sequential sensations also known as thinking dreaming or day dreaming. The brain does many different functions and in many cases very efficiently. It takes in information from the five senses and then processes it and produces a sequence of output that goes to the muscles of the body that then produce speech and action. The brain is constantly processing information. We are not aware of processing all of the information but we are aware of processing some of the information. This is possibly done by the interconnection of the different parts of the brain. The structure of the brain varies as to the task that part of the brain is doing. There has to be structures that reorganize the processing so that ne next part of the brain can use this information. The computer is one of many structures that can process information. There is no doubt that computers if sophisticated enough will be able to mimic man in every way. But this is not proof that they have all the qualities that man does and we certainly will not have all the qualities that a computer has like speed an logic ability (the ability to follow a complex set of rules exactly). This is not to mean that I don’t think that we can make sentient beings, it only means that certain ways of processing information may not produce all the consciousness that man has without equivalent structures. These equivalent structures may be the complex interconnection of neurons that the brain has but the computer does not yet have. It is I think an advantage to think that we can make both sentient (conscious) and non sentient beings that behave like humans. A machine that can behave like a human must be able to process information but there are many way to process information and come to the same behavior. Proof, as before stated a mentapath can be represented by a real number, the lesser requirement of behavior through time or behavipath can be represented by a real number also. This real number put into a processor will produce the behavior of a person through time. The mathematical question is how many algorithms can there be that will produce the same number over time? Then there is the information dependent algorithm that will produce the certain real number over time given sequentially parts of another real number. The real numbers represent the input and the output. So we have the situation that we a processor that when given a real number over time will produce a second real number. How many different processors can exist that will do this and the answer is infinite. What kind of infinite? As we make restrictions on the processor we restrict the amount of different processors that can exist. We can restrict the processor in space and time and since this is a reduction in two real infinities if another is not found we no longer have and infinite amount of possible processors that will produce the real number given the first one. There is however logic and the starting data. Can logic be infinitely complex so that it can replace infinite size and or infinite time? We also have the situation where we have a infinite non repeating real number as input and the same as the output them there would be only one processor that could do the job. How much of this number is imputed at one time If the processor can be viewed as having the How large must a processor be to be able to process any infinitely large number and give a specific output each time? The simplest case would be what ever the input the output is always the same. The processor would be the size of the output. This"is simple storage. If the processor took in other numbers and had to distinguish between then before looking up the proper number, it would have to be larger.

The functioning of the brain produces consciousness. Consciousness my not be the most important thing that the brain does or produces. It may be that certain abilities compete with consciousness within the brain. One brain may be more consciousness than another but on the other hand it may be less intelligent.

How does the concept of emergent properties apply to animals? It would seem that at certain levels of complexity of brain functioning that certain emergent properties may come into existence that did not exist at a lower levels of brain functioning. How this might apply to animals is that certain aspects of the awarepaths might not exist in lower level animals. This also might apply to humans in that at higher levels of complexity there might be emergent types of consciousness or emergent paths. What can we call an emergent consciousness path. If it is emergent due to higher levels of complexity of the brian we can call it cemerpath complex emergent path. cemerawarepath. complex in this manner means larger brain. or more neural connections in a certain space. But if it is a emergent property due to different ways of arrangement the neurons etc. it is a different emergent consciousness.semerpath the s stands for structural as in neuron structure. It can also be a different concept entirely it is a demerpath or demerawarepath the d is for different. The question arises do emergent properties gradually emerge or is it sudden? It seems that these can be both ways and the combination of the two. a combination would be a small region where there is the rapid rise of the emergent property. We can apply any function to describe the emergent property's emergence it might not be a linear emergence but any function type of emergence.

GLOSSARY

Behavipath: the path of behavior that a animal or other conscious being produces through time.

Parmentapaths, a part of a mentapath.

Anipaths, the itopaths of animals.

Aniphysipath, the physipath of an animal.

Animentapath, The mentapath of an animal.

Aniawarepath, The awarepath of an animal.

Animapaths, another spelling