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NguyenJ

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on: Jul 14, 2018
The criteria for personhood regarding higher order mental functions include:
 
  1. capability for analytical, conceptual thought
  2. ability to learn; ability to retain and recall information
  3. ability to solve complicated problems with analytical thought
  4. the capacity for communication that suggests thought
 
  The fact that dolphins can perform leaps, dives and flips on cue from trainers: prove that dolphins are not intelligent enough to be persons, because persons would not perform such menial behaviors.
  A. True
  B. False

Question 2

As far as the criteria for personhood are concerned, dolphins probably do possess awareness because the fact that they can be so easily trained shows that they are aware of the external world and able to interact with it.
 
  A. True
  B. False


JaynaD87

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Reply #1 on: Jul 14, 2018
Answer to Question 1

Answer: False

Answer to Question 2

Answer: True


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