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Jun 21, 2015 at 20:12	comment	added	Patrik Gustafsson		Well it is a pretty well known problem in philosophy that you don't know if other humans are conscious. You can't look inside their consciousness, you only know that they behave like they are conscious. If we can't know for sure that other humans are conscious, it follows that we can't know if animals are conscious either.
Jun 21, 2015 at 2:50	comment	added	virmaior		@PatrikGustafsson I'm not sure how you're defining conscious to suggest most other mammals are not conscious. Dogs and cats do seem to engage in conscious-end directed activity as Cheers suggests.
Jun 19, 2015 at 12:24	comment	added	Cheers and hth. - Alf		Dogs are conscious. So are cats. Don't know about cows, haven't had much to do with them, although I'm pretty sure that they can be rendered unconscious, which appears to imply that the natural state is conscious.
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Jun 19, 2015 at 10:06	comment	added	Patrik Gustafsson		What Does It All Mean?: A Very Short Introduction to Philosophy by Thomas Nagel has some short discussion of conscious stones. I think the answer to your question depends on if you think other animals have human like consciousness.
Jun 19, 2015 at 9:53	history	answered	Patrik Gustafsson	CC BY-SA 3.0