Chalmers's Fading/Dancing Qualia and Self-Knowledge
...David Chalmers defends what he calls a principle of organizational invariance according to which if a system has conscious experiences then any other system with the same fine-grained functional organization will have qualitatively identical experiences. His main arguments for this principle are his "Fading Qualia" and "Dancing Qualia" arguments. The Splintered Mind
Chimpanzees Prefer Fair Play To Reaping An Unjust Reward : The Primate Diaries
A new study shows that chimps sacrifice their own advantage if they earned it unfairly.
Human Uniqueness and the Future: Scientific American
We must adjust to our unparalleled ability to shape the world's evolution
Self-Control Without a ?Self??
...Self-control constitutes a fundamental aspect of human nature. Yet there is reason to believe that human and nonhuman self-control processes rely on the same biological mechanism?the availability of glucose in the bloodstream. Two experiments tested this hypothesis by examining the effect of available blood glucose on the ability of dogs to exert self-control. Experiment 1 showed that dogs that were required to exert self-control on an initial task persisted for a shorter time on a subsequent unsolvable task than did dogs that were not previously required to exert self-control. Experiment 2 demonstrated that providing dogs with a boost of glucose eliminated the negative effects of prior exertion of self-control on persistence; this finding parallels a similar effect in humans. These findings provide the first evidence that self-control relies on the same limited energy resource among humans and nonhumans. Our results have broad implications for the study of self-control processes in human and nonhuman species. ? Psychological Science
What Can Your Dog Tell You About Your Self-Control? A lot
...What is the one thing that connects people with dogs? Believe it or not, it's the biological processes responsible for self-control. | Psychology Today
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