Sentence examples for lack consciousness from inspiring English sources

Wind tunnels are supposed to lack consciousness.

This argument, based on the alleged failure of animals to display certain intellectual capacities, is illustrative of a general pattern of using certain dissimilarities between animals and humans to argue that animals lack consciousness.

In Chalmers's words, all that matters here is that when we say the system might lack consciousness, 'a meaningful possibility is being expressed, and it is an open question whether consciousness arises or not' (1996, p. 97).

In contrast, Carruthers (1989) asserts that his own arguments that nonhuman animals (even dogs) lack consciousness are sufficiently weighty that we are morally obligated to eradicate or ignore our sympathetic feelings toward such creatures.

They lack consciousness and free will, and their human bodies are holographic veils.

Although lacking consciousness and a human's intuition, Deep Blue had millions of moves memorized and could analyze as many each second.

The zombie in his band's name is a hypothetical being that philosophers like to speculate about — a creature that looks just like a human but lacks consciousness.

Kleist argued that, paradoxical as it may seem, the puppet is free in a way no human being can manage to be, precisely because it lacks consciousness; for us to achieve the gracefulness of puppets, which "only glance the ground, like elves", we should have to have "either no consciousness or an infinite amount of it": that is to say, we should have to be either a marionette or a god.

There is no analogy that the Ego can draw as it can with the Thou between itself and the external world, since that world (presumably) lacks consciousness.

It should be noted that while Carruthers continues to argue that only humans have consciousness, he has more recently amended his ethical view, holding that animals may deserve some moral concern despite lacking consciousness (1999).

Why should switching from homunculi to neurons necessarily switch on the light of consciousness? (For doubts about the assumption that it is conceivable that the homunculus-head lacks consciousness, see e.g. Loar 1990/1997, pp. 613f).