In discussions of animal consciousness there is no clearly agreed upon sense in which the term “consciousness” is used. ... (In this article I also use the term “sentience” to refer to phenomenal consciousness.) To contemplate animal consciousness in this sense is to consider the possibility that, in Nagel's...
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Animal cognition is the title given to a modern approach to the mental capacities of non-human animals. It has developed out of comparative psychology, but has also been strongly influenced by the ap...
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Please note that we do not have the resources to answer general questions about animal consciousness or animal welfare, beyond what is on this site or in ...
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An excerpt from the book Animal Minds: Beyond Cognition to Consciousness by Donald R. Griffin ... In Favor of Animal Consciousness ... In their Dictionary of Ethology Immelmann and Beer (1989) define animal consciousness as "immediate awareness of things, events, and relations," but they hasten to add the conventional...
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Others believe that animals have a form of "animal consciousness" which is totally different from human consciousness. This debate between philosophers and scientists has raged for decades. As a person with autism, my "autistic like" consciousness is different from normal people.
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Intriguing surprises await viewers Inside the Animal Mind a three-part NATURE miniseries. ... To order a copy of Inside the Animal Mind, please visit the NATURE Shop. Online content for Inside the Animal Mind was originally posted January 2000...
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For current thinking about animal consciousness is a mess. Hidden and not so hidden agendas distort discussion and impede research. A kind of comic relief can be found--if you go in for bitter irony--by turning to the "history of the history" of the controversies.
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Animal consciousness: what matters and why. ... Abstract: A better understanding of consciousness in humans is needed before the discussion can be extended validly to animal consciousness. Consciousness requires a certain kind of informational organization that does not seem to be 'hard-wired' in humans, but is instilled...
instruct.westvalley.edu/lafave/dennett_anim_csness.html
KEYWORDS: Animal consciousness, higher-order representationalism, subjectivity. ... The case against phenomenal consciousness for most species of animal divides into two parts. The first demonstrates the superiority of higher-order representationalist over first-order representationalist theories of phenomenal consciousness.
psyche.cs.monash.edu.au/v4/psyche-4-03-carruthers.html
8. Science of Consciousness (Science of Consciousness on PhilPapers) ... Neurobiological Theories and Models of Consciousness [111] ... Animal Consciousness [90]
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