A. It would be a personal experience in me because I have rationality and self-consciousness, but it would not be a personal experience in the animal, who is not a person.
Refutation
-part time
-animals rational
-nonrational humans
-can distinguish rational humans for certain reasons
B. Something more is needed than that kind of an experience for it to be called "personal," such as having a human body.
Refutation
C. Animals cannot have personal experiences, the kind of thing that a person has, because the dictionary defines a person as a human being, or as a rational and self-conscious being.
-angels and ET
-phlog.
Refutation
return to the main argument.
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