On thought

[nadriel]

Do creatures other than humans think? If not, what makes us different?

And if so, what do they think about?

What is sentience?

Can thought be measured and quantified- and if so, how?

Comments

[brindy.livejournal.com]

This site might have some of the answer's your looking for.
Animal Sentience

The questions you ask have been asked by philosophers, pyschologists and computer scientists (and probaby many others) for a long time.