منابع مشابه
Animal Consciousness: What Matters
x\.RE 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 do not want to know the answers to these questions. We should not despise the desire to be kept in ignorance—are there not many facts about yourself and your loved ones that you would wisely choose not to know? Speaking for myself, I am sure that I would...
متن کاملAnimal consciousness: a synthetic approach.
Despite anecdotal evidence suggesting conscious states in a variety of non-human animals, no systematic neuroscientific investigation of animal consciousness has yet been undertaken. We set forth a framework for such an investigation that incorporates integration of data from neuroanatomy, neurophysiology, and behavioral studies, uses evidence from humans as a benchmark, and recognizes the crit...
متن کاملCognitive Neuroscience and Animal Consciousness
The problem of animal consciousness has profound implications on our concept of nature and of our place in the natural world. In philosophy of mind and cognitive neuroscience the problem of animal consciousness raises two main questions (Velmans, 2007): the distribution question (are there conscious animals beside humans?) and the phenomenological question (what is it like to be a non-human ...
متن کاملPhysiologic Measures of Animal Stress during Transitional States of Consciousness
Determination of the humaneness of methods used to produce unconsciousness in animals, whether for anesthesia, euthanasia, humane slaughter, or depopulation, relies on our ability to assess stress, pain, and consciousness within the contexts of method and application. Determining the subjective experience of animals during transitional states of consciousness, however, can be quite difficult; f...
متن کاملAnimal Consciousness as a Test Case of Cognitive Science
§1 Animal Minds? In our dealings with animals at least most of us see them as conscious beings. We say “the dog feels pain” ascribing sensation. We notice “My cat wants to get in the kitchen because she thinks there is some cheese left” ascribing beliefs and desires. On the other hand the employment of human categories to animals seems to be problematic. Reflecting on the details of human belie...
متن کاملذخیره در منابع من
با ذخیره ی این منبع در منابع من، دسترسی به آن را برای استفاده های بعدی آسان تر کنید
ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: EFSA Supporting Publications
سال: 2017
ISSN: 2397-8325,2397-8325
DOI: 10.2903/sp.efsa.2017.en-1196