On: What insects can tell us about the origins of cons...

[chaosfox]

see also: "Insects cannot tell us anything about subjective experience or the origin of consciousness"

https://www.pnas.org/content/113/27/E3813

[amelius → chaosfox]

The title of that note is, of course, possibly not correct.

> Thus, they fail to make a convincing case that insects can tell us anything about subjective experience or consciousness.

This is not the same as "Insects cannot tell us anything about subjective experience or the origin of consciousness"

[mfoy_ → amelius]

Right, the title makes a claim, and their conclusion is that the opposite claim has failed to meet its burden of proof...

Thinking that "because something has not met its burden of proof means that the opposite must be true" is a fallacy.

[DocSavage → chaosfox]

And the original authors' rebuttal to that and other work: https://www.pnas.org/content/113/27/E3814