Yeah this looks like the old conscious/sentient/intelligent conflation (where the middle word seems to serve no purpose but to enable confusing the two on either sides of it...)
I plead guilty to perpetuating the confusion. If I try to be more correct and say something like ‘Already non-self-conscious animals like...’, then it looks like I have some complex idiosyncratic classification in mind and I mean something more sophisticated than what I do. There’s no real good solution here.
Yeah this looks like the old conscious/sentient/intelligent conflation (where the middle word seems to serve no purpose but to enable confusing the two on either sides of it...)
I plead guilty to perpetuating the confusion. If I try to be more correct and say something like ‘Already non-self-conscious animals like...’, then it looks like I have some complex idiosyncratic classification in mind and I mean something more sophisticated than what I do. There’s no real good solution here.