TITLE:
Ants Are Not Conscious
AUTHORS:
Russell K. Standish
KEYWORDS:
Anthropic Reasoning; Consciousness; Damuth’s Law; Power Law
JOURNAL NAME:
Open Journal of Philosophy,
Vol.3 No.1,
February
7,
2013
ABSTRACT: Anthropic reasoning is a form of statistical reasoning based upon finding oneself a member of a particular reference class of conscious beings. By considering empirical distribution functions defined over animal life on Earth, we can deduce that the vast bulk of animal life is unlikely to be conscious.