Desrtopa comments on Closet survey #1 - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Desrtopa 28 November 2010 04:10:29PM 4 points [-]

Why shouldn't animals have distinct personalities from each other? It doesn't take that much brainpower before you can start introducing differences in behavior between specimens without causing their methods of interaction to collapse.

Comment author: shokwave 29 November 2010 08:29:41AM 1 point [-]

See my response to Vaniver, but in a nutshell: animals do have distinct personalities, but not in the same sense of the word we have when we talk about embryos and babies having the right to live because they have personality.