XPost: alt.animals.ethics.vegetarian, alt.animals.dog, rec.pets.dogs.behavior   
   From: doxielover_2004@yahoo.com   
      
   If you refuse to accept the basic truths of science and empirical   
   knowledge, how then do you suppose to know anything of value?   
      
   Your self awareness needs some adjustment... you are not a person who   
   knows everything.  In fact, your mental and learning processes are   
   hurting.   
      
   moonspeak@hotmail.com wrote in   
   news:1128278076.730399.318190@f14g2000cwb.googlegroups.com:   
      
   >> The fact is, a dog is not aware that it has a sense of   
   >> smell.  It doesn't *think* about its senses at all.  It   
   >> has them, and it uses them more or less automatically.   
   >   
   > Ok, you did not provide any evidence that a dog that has lost it's   
   > sense of smell would continue sniffing at things, not aware that it is   
   > unable to smell. It makes a lot more sense that when the brain is not   
   > receiving certain information, it will cause the dog to not behave as   
   > though it is receiving information. But I might be wrong with this.   
   >   
   > Your "facts" are simply your personal assumptions. You cannot even   
   > provide scientific evidence that humans have self-awareness, other   
   > than your biased opinion.   
   >   
   >   
      
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