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Third, the question of whether animals are conscious beings or “mere automata”, as Cartesians would have it, is of considerable moral significance given the dependence of modern societies on mass farming and the use of animals for biomedical research.
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plato.stanford.edu/entries/consciousness-animal/
plato.stanford.edu/entries/consciousness-animal/
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If they are too high, this means the animal is at risk of dehydration and the resulting sensation is thirst. Equally, if salt levels are too low, the sensation felt is a hunger for salt. The primordial emotion felt by the animal then drives...
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/3346295/Are-anima...
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Do humans? For anyone to 'rationalize' they must process the capacity to reason. I question whether or not most people even have awareness. Most people go about their day oblivious and make emotional and irrational decisions. We do questio...
http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20090709160...
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When we look in the brains of animals that we're pretty sure are conscious, we see a certain organization. And it's very similar to the organization in a monkey or a cat or a dog. So the answer to your question is I'm reasonably confident t...
http://www.pbs.org/kcet/closertotruth/explore/learn_12....
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Are animals conscious? The way we are? Which species, and why? What is it like to be a bat, a rat, a vulture, a whale? ... But perhaps we really don't want to know the answers to these questions. We should not despise the desire to be kept in ... FOR Social Research, volume on the conference, In The Company of Animals,
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ase.tufts.edu/cogstud/papers/animconc.htm
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What makes it unlikely that animals are phenomenally conscious, is not their inability to entertain conscious thoughts, but rather their lack of a theory of mind, and consequent inability to entertain higher-order thoughts.
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psyche.cs.monash.edu.au/v4/psyche-4-03-carruthers.html
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I think animals are conscious, and if they are, then I think that means we don't have to worry for them quite so much.Watch this video in Quicktime. 5:34 minutes; 32.8 MB ... I absolutely believe animals are conscious beings. They're so endlessly gifted and smart, many times far beyond us humans. Homer, my cat,
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www.beachwalks.tv/2006/08/03/beach-walks-162-are-animal...
www.beachwalks.tv/2006/08/03/beach-walks-162-are-animals-conscious/trackback/
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www.camden.rutgers.edu/~bwhitlow/Courses/Consciousness/...
www.camden.rutgers.edu/~bwhitlow/Courses/Consciousness/ApeLanguage.htm
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Are Animals Conscious? ... Movies such as Soylent Green (see Note below) to the contrary, it is unlikely that non-conscious humans (unlike presumed non-conscious animals) will ever be considered a source of nutrition. ... If animals are conscious, would that give them rights? Tibor Machan, a philosopher and professor of...
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www.flatrock.org.nz/topics/animals/are_animals_consciou...
www.flatrock.org.nz/topics/animals/are_animals_conscious.htm
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