WHY ANIMALS ARE SPIRITUAL BEINGS?

Why are animals cognitive?

to interpret the bird's behaviour quite differently: that it is the consequence of a complex web of associations, each association acquired according to principles well-understood from laboratory study of learning in the white rat. This sort of explanation is sometimes described as conditioning; 'behaviourism' is the philosophy that all learning is fundamentally of this associative nature, even...

Analgesic Drugs in Animals – Why Animals Are Different from Prople

Why are some animals so smart?

Cloning of animals and human beings

Every plant propagated by cutting is a clone of the original. Thus cloning of plants has been done since antiquity. Cloning of animals is something new. This paper reviews recent experiments with cloning of animals.

The Moral Consideration of Nonhuman Animals: How Can We Identify Which Beings Are Conscious?1

A variety of ethical positions consider that the ability of an individual to be aware of what befalls him or her —in a more o less complex manner— is the indispensable attribute for that being to be per se morally considered. Nowadays, nevertheless, we lack a direct method to identify the ability of an individual to be conscious and, therefore, to corroborate the belief that certain beings —man...