ksac said:Ok, I'm going to make it a little harder for you guys. I'm going to give you a definition to explain what I mean when I say conscience of itself. "the capacity to think about, and therefore conceptualize, one's own thoughts"
I don't believe your dog or cat meets this requirement.
shit, if we go by that standard, i seriously doubt more than 10 or 5 percent of humans can be said to have what is required of them to be considered to have consciousness of themselves. seriously...