Letters

Thinking animals
An interesting article, but the question of human consciousness seems no closer to solution in “Humans wonder, anybody home?” by Susan Gaidos (SN: 12/19/09, p. 22) than it did in Julian Jaynes’ The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind of 1976. It seems to me that all the mental abilities discussed do not show that humans can do something unique to our species, or show that we are more “conscious” than other species, but only that species display varying degrees of ability.