[Avodah] animals and bechira??

[Micha Berger]

On Sun, Jan 15, 2012 at 12:49:48PM -0800, Harvey Benton wrote:
: common scientific thinking is that animals do not have either bechira??
: or awareness of their own thoughts...  how do they know this??

Common scientific thinking is that they do not agree about people
having bechirah, never mind animals.

But I did note in the threads I pointed you to earlier that animals,
even chimps and other apes, lack the part of the brain that it seems
we use when considering our own thoughts.
http://www.aishdas.org/avodah/vol27/v27n169.shtml#09

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-Micha

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