Animal Mind: Can You Clone Your Beloved Pet's Personality? - Walter Bradley Center for Natural and Artificial Intelligence

One argument that more intelligent animals like dogs or cats do indeed have a mind is that the pet’s “self” can’t be cloned.

Michael Egnor has noted that the famous philosopher René Descartes (15961650) thought that animals were biological machines that did not have minds at all. Many arguments can be mustered against that… [+5344 chars]

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