[tortoise]

Problem is - dogs have no self-awareness (they do not consider their plight), and can't think abstractly.

I would state that this assertion is very arguable, and attempting to actually derive anything with this as a given is doubly so. I can't know what goes on in another person's head, never mind that of a dog.

[f.Christian]

Evolution is mind games . . . rhetoric - - - channeling rocks // bones ! ! !

[Alamo-Girl]

With regard to your post to exmarine, I read somewhere that language sets humans apart. (I realize that other creatures have some forms of communicating, but that's not my point.)

What I'm wondering is whether the advanced language skill of humans is one of the considerations in A.I. work-in-progress? If so, is that treated as a symbolization of acquired information in learning? Are there any rules for it?

[longshadow]

I can't know what goes on in another person's head, never mind that of a dog.

Dreams of fire hydrants and slow mailmen, one might suspect.

;-)

[exmarine]

I would state that this assertion is very arguable, and attempting to actually derive anything with this as a given is doubly so. I can't know what goes on in another person's head, never mind that of a dog.

Please show me the latest treatise on philosophy from a dog. I haven't seen one.