?url_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Adc&rft.title=First+Person+Singular&rft.creator=Harnad%2C+Stevan&rft.subject=Cognitive+Psychology&rft.description=Brian+Rotman+argues+that+(one)+'mind'+and+(one)+'god'+are+only+conceivable%2C+literally%2C+because+of+(alphabetic)+literacy%2C+which+allowed+us+to+designate+each+of+these+ghosts+as+an+incorporeal%2C+speaker-independent+'I'+(or%2C+in+the+case+of+infinity%2C+a+notional+agent+that+goes+on+counting+forever).+I+argue+that+to+have+a+mind+is+to+have+the+capacity+to+feel.+No+one+can+be+sure+which+organisms+feel%2C+hence+have+minds%2C+but+it+seems+likely+that+one-celled+organisms+and+plants+do+not%2C+whereas+animals+do.+So+minds+originated+before+humans+and+before+language+--hence%2C+a+fortiori%2C+before+writing%2C+whether+alphabetic+or+ideographic.&rft.date=2009-04-12&rft.type=Preprint&rft.type=NonPeerReviewed&rft.format=text%2Fhtml&rft.identifier=http%3A%2F%2Fcogprints.org%2F6418%2F1%2Ftls-rotman-post4.htm&rft.format=application%2Fpdf&rft.identifier=http%3A%2F%2Fcogprints.org%2F6418%2F2%2Ftls-rotman-post4.pdf&rft.format=other&rft.identifier=http%3A%2F%2Fcogprints.org%2F6418%2F3%2Ftls-rotman-post4.rtf&rft.identifier=++Harnad%2C+Stevan++(2009)+First+Person+Singular.++%5BPreprint%5D+++++&rft.relation=http%3A%2F%2Fcogprints.org%2F6418%2F<script src='//archive-bar.soton.ac.uk/archive-bar.js'></script>