Maybe there ARE known unknowns....

[novapsyche]

[...] In short, Smith says, "the results suggest that some animals have functional features of, or parallels to, human conscious metacognition."

They apparently know when they know and when they don't know, he adds.

New Research Finds Some Animals Know Their Cognitive Limits

Comments

Research

[freeandclear.livejournal.com]

I truly love your research posts. Many of your interests match mine. And I would have missed 'em all if you didn't post 'em. Thank you!

What you discover and post fascinates me as much as the content. I love your mind.

[liquidgrey.livejournal.com]

I've always found the common assumption that we are of an entirely different level of intellect than animals to be rather arrogant. Consciousness is the ground of all life - it can take any form as it resides in the spacio-temporal world, haboured in the flesh of man and animal alike.
So I feel, anyway. Thanks for posting this, it got me thinking.

[padpedpladuk.livejournal.com]

Beautiful! And ditto to both freeandclear and liquidgrey. I've read or heard a couple of pop psych pieces lately about the "unique" capacity of humans for emotion and metacognition. I can't imagine that even a child who has a cat or a dog could think that animals don't feel emotions!

[hozed.livejournal.com]

You might find this interesting..

(Stuart Hameroff's ideas about quantum mechanical basis for conciousness.. long and technical)
http://www.consciousness.arizona.edu/hameroff/Pen-Ham/Orch_OR/Royal Society.htm