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Marcos Khilla

Dr. Adam See

HSS 408: Philosophy of Animals Minds

8 May 2020

Fox Philosophy

Background and Rationale

The mind usually consists of both unconscious and conscious events. There is

ongoing scientific and philosophical debate as to whether or not animal minds are

unconscious or can also include conscious events in the word animal minds. Aristotle and

Rousseau started philosophical questions, and there is still an active area for animal mind

science. It was started much later by scientists that some did not even find it a valid science

issue. The emotional status of animals was studied in the nineteenth century by biologists

such as Lamarck, Roman and Charles Darwin and later by psychologists and ethnographers

such as Griffin. They concluded that animals, mainly vertebrates, are aware of their

behavioral observations. Bio-psychological research has recently led to several major empiric

developments that have shown that perception is the product of the brain process and a valid

subject for scientific investigation. There is a great deal of reluctance to consider this issue as

appropriate for scientific study, even among scientists who might claim animal

consciousness. Based on the above arguments, this research paper focuses primarily on the

study of foxes and the drawing of conclusions on whether or not foxes have consciousness.

Research Questions

 What is most philosophically interesting about foxes?

 Do foxes have any aspects of consciousness?

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 If yes, how does the fox display its consciousness?

Objectives of the Study

 To find out the most interesting philosophical aspect of the fox

 To find out whether or not the fox has consciousness.

 To find out the behavior of the fox in its conscious mind.

Significance and Purpose of the Study

The primary purpose of this study is to study philosophy an animal mind. The direct

focus is specifically on the fox consciousness. In the study or research, the fox behavior in

consciousness state will be carefully studied and analyzed. The significance of studying

animal minds, specifically the fox, will contribute facts on the existing research about animal

minds. The findings and conclusions deduced by will be important to scholars in analyzing

animal minds even of different species. Finally, the research will provide facts that will erase

the negative attitudes of human beings towards the animals and realize their value.

Literature Review

Diversity of animal behavior and cognitive capacity allows an animal consciousness

to be recognized and established. Ultimately, these cognitive processes led scientists into

thinking that they represent different ways of perception and meaning. The evolving outcome

can be described for people as interactions between various functional strata, including

perceptual, warning, emotional and evaluative capacity about a principal node that supports

essential regulations and principal pulses. Any of these levels will participate and contribute

to a fascinating stimulus to gradually create expectations and desires that are externalized by

conscious behavior. Sensitization processes, therefore, require more complex and important

responses than merely incorporation or combination of the individual responses of different

systems. Knowledge may differ based on the types of animals or external factors such as

smaller content, lower brain structures, lower complexity and related cognitive capacity and
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high content: multiple brain structures and complex integrative processes. This requires

deliberate action and understanding. The limited number of species under study which

involves very little farms is currently highly vulnerable to this research, and highly restricted.

However, the species concerned give mammals a wide variety of vertebrates and the results

seem to be beyond the scope of this review.

No one would be surprised by the various difficulties of life when they can appreciate

this aspect of animal conscious processes. Therefore, a variety of methods have been

established to respond to conflicting physical, biotic and social conditions. The problem is

that the cognitive ability generating perception is derived from the processes of evolution.

They may also emerge from the evolution of organisms which are not phylogenetically linked

with specific neuronal systems. When the brain architecture changes very rapidly, a selective

tendency seems to be constantly adapting to the environment. Then it seems to be difficult to

explain the relationship between behavioral correlates of consciousness and the other neural

structures. Although understanding is strongly inferred from the evolutionary position, one

theory is that it may grow intelligence, as it provides a competitive advantage that adapts to

the specific challenges of species. The accuracy of the minds of the world is critical in

choosing the right behavior in a given context.

After analyzing current evidence on the role of awareness in adaptive processes, it

raised the issue of the emergence of consciousness in different animal phytases.

Consciousness can be regarded as an essential aspect of animals that live and grow in

different ways and in other respects as global workplaces to deal with life's complexities.

The Fox Consciousness

Scientists have been attempting for thousands of years to grasp the existence and

intelligence of foxes. Although neuroscience has advanced, even in humans, scientists still do

not know where it is coming from or how it comes from (Carruthers n.p). Nevertheless, the
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researchers think they may be closer to identifying their physical origins after studying a

network of three separate regions in a fox brain that seems essential for consciousness.

The fox brain have three main components: cortex, thalamus and liver. The

consciousness is always in the consciousness. This produces most minds. Brain regulates the

sensory and cognitive functions of your fox, including memory, vision and emotion. The

rabbit in the back manages the balance of the fox. The brain stem binds to the spinal cord in

all brain hemispheres. Breathing, blood and sleep are controlled, as are views and other

functions of the body. Thalamus is considered a large mass of neurons under the brain. This

limited but significant region provides sensory impulses of the brain cortex. Information

about the function of the brain. Scientists believe that fox consciousness is based on the

continuous transmission of chemical signals from the brain and thalamus to the brain (Hunt,

Tam, and Jonathan Schooler 378).

Theoretical and experimental consciousness tests in recent experimental research and

theoretical models, the question of creating causal links between subjective awareness

perceptions and measurable neurons has been addressed. The objective of this study is the

well-defined question if an external or an internal awareness transcends unconscious the

ignorant experience and access in subjective transition of information processing. Converging

neuro images or neurophysiological evidence, gathered from minimal experimental

comparisons, indicate objective neural intervention for conscious access: increased sensory

input, cortical-cortical interaction with beta and gamma long distance frequencies, and large

preparatory networks 'ignition.' These findings are compared to established theoretical

approach models as the World Neural Workspace (GNW) which deliberately provides

income information exposure through multiple brain systems across the world by means of

the densely distributed long-neuronal axon network of pre-, parietal-, and cingulative cords.

This neural network tracks general anesthesia, coma, vegetative state, and schizophrenia
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research.

Behavioral Experimental Evidence

The activity and function of the brain can affect a masked and invisible visual

stimulus at several levels. In visual, auditory and even motor levels, exquisite priming has

now been seen. If, for example, the subliminal representation of the same image coincides

with a visible objective image, simple chooses would be speeded up if the image is not

repeated, whether it is an entity or an object. This repeat action avoids drastic shifts in

physical information, including the upper case word versus the lower one or two different

facial directions, demonstrating that invariant visual perception can be accomplished with no

knowledge (Maghami,Saeed and Alireza 62-77). On segmenting level, a variety of word

groups have been identified for word sense exhaustion. Subliminal feedback can have an

even more advanced effect on motor reactions. Subliminal financial incentives increase the

morale of subjects in a tough group, indicating implicit messages are their morale. This is the

task: masked forms will show the task and help to identify changes in the task set. Even the

inhibitor function may be accidentally partially disabled as if a missed stop signal slows or

delays engine reactions.

Conclusion

Based on the previous research done on vertebrates on the philosophy of animal mind,

particularly on consciousness, it is evident that the fox has some aspect of consciousness.

Assuming that the fox has the same kind of brain human species have, the trigger of

consciousness becomes the same. In the animal world, it is possible to imagine the animals

talk, laughs, cries, and feel pain just like the human but unfortunately, we cannot feel it.
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Work Cited

Carruthers, Peter. "The problem of animal consciousness." Proceedings and Addresses of the

American Philosophical Association. Vol. 92. 2018.

Hunt, Tam, and Jonathan Schooler. "The easy part of the Hard Problem: A resonance theory

of consciousness." Frontiers in human neuroscience 13 (2019): 378.

Maghami, Majid, Saeed Mehrpour, and Alireza Ahmadi. "The Effect of Explicit

Consciousness-Raising of Autonomous Learning Activities on Iranian EFL Students’

Achievement Test Scores." Iranian Journal of English for Academic Purposes 7.2 (2018): 62-

77.