consciousness awareness of existence and of its surroundings. And anything
having a brain thinks, to use the term at its loosest. What I meant sex16ans was
that only the sapient mind thinks and knows that it is thinking."
He was perfectly safe so far. He talked about sensory stimuli and
responses, and
about conditioned reflexes. He went back to the first
century Pre-Atomic, and Pavlov and Korzybski sex16ans and Freud. The globe never
flickered.
"The nonsapient sex16ans animal is sex16ans conscious sex16ans only of what is immediately present
to sex16ans the senses sex16ans and responds automatically. Sex16ans it will perceive something and
make a single statement about it-this is good to eat, this sensation is
unpleasant, this is a sex-gratification object, this is dangerous. The
sapient mind, on the other hand, is conscious of thinking about these sense
stimuli, and makes descriptive sex16ans statements about them, and then makes
statements about those statements, in a connected chain. I have a
structural differential at my seat; if sex16ans somebody will bring sex16ans it to me."
"Well, never mind now, sex16ans Dr. Mallin. When you're off the stand and the
discussion begins you can show what you mean. We just want your opinion in
general terms, now."
"Well, the sapient mind can generalize. To the nonsapient animal, every
experience is
either totally novel or identical
with some remembered
experience. A rabbit will flee from one dog because to sex16ans the rabbit mind it
is identical with another dog that has chased it. A bird will be attracted
to an apple, and each apple will be a unique red thing to peck at. The
sapient being sex16ans will say, 'sex16ans These red objects are apples; sex16ans as a class, they are
edible and flavorsome.' He sets up a class under the general label of
apples. This, in turn, leads to the formation of abstract ideas, sex16ans redness,
sex16ans flavor, et cetera-conceived of apart from any specific physical object, and
to the ordering of abstractions-'fruit' as distinguished from apples,
'food' as distinguished from fruit."
The globe was still placidly blue. The sex16ans three judges waited, and he
continued:
"Having formed these abstract ideas, it becomes necessary to symbolize
them, in order to deal with them apart sex16ans from the actual object. The sapient
being is a sex16ans symbolizer, and a symbol communicator; he is able to convey to
other sex16ans sapient beings his sex16ans ideas in symbolic form."
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