Study Questions #4

Questions for "Animal Minds, Animal Dreams" by Cartmill and Steven Wise articles

1. What is the Turing test and what does it test?

2. What analogy does Cartmill make between sleepwalkers and animals?

3. What is the binding phenomenon and why does Cartmill say it isn't a necessary condition for consciousness?

4. How does Francis Crick explain the necessity for sleep to be conserved during evolution?

5. Why does psychologist Nicholas Humphrey say that our ancestors evolved consciousness?

6. In "Standing Up For Rover" what criteria does Steven Wise use in granting consciousness to chimps?

7. What privileges would Steven Wise and Gary Francione like to extend to gorillas?

8. How does author John Leo portray the efforts of Steven Wise and others in his U.S. News and World Report article?

9. What basic rights does Steven Wise say that humans enjoy which nonhuman animals do not?

10. What analogy does Wise make between non-human animals and slaves in nineteenth-century America?