Intelligence and Behavior: Thesis Submitted in Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree of Master of Arts in Philosophy in the Grad

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Excerpt from Intelligence and Behavior: Thesis Submitted in Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree of Master of Arts in Philosophy in the Graduate School of the University of Illinois, 1916Perhaps the most significant fact about man, as contrasted'with his environment, is the fact that man is a highly conscious being. Of course there are other beings beside man, from a mon key to a fish, which seem to possess a varying degree of intelli gence or consciousness, but none of these seem equal in that re spect to man. Of our own consciousness we seem to have no doubt We simply say we know things and this is a fact. The only question left is what does to know mean as distinguished from not knowing Of other beings we speak as conscious because they seem to behave in a way which is characteristic of ourselves when we say we know, that is they perform acts that can be classified as consci ous acts. We sometimes even speak of a puppet as if it were con scious. This as if it were is important, for by this we seem to indicate that although there is some similarity between the puppet and a conscious being, yet there exists at the same time an essen tial difference between the behavior of the two which is all the difference in the world between consciousness and non-consciousness What then is this difference?About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.