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- Insects and other animals have consciousness https://nautil.us/insects-and-other-animals-have-consciousness-571584/ 227 comments
- Are animals conscious? How new research is changing minds https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cv223z15mpmo 5 comments philosophy
- Scientists push new paradigm of animal consciousness, saying even insects may be sentient https://www.nbcnews.com/science/science-news/animal-consciousness-scientists-push-new-paradigm-rcna148213 500 comments philosophy
- Animal dreams indicate animal consciousness. Dream re-enactments presuppose not only sentience but subjectivity – experience the world from the standpoint of an ‘I’. https://iai.tv/articles/imagination-consciousness-and-animal-dreams-auid-2227&utm_source=reddit&_auid=2020 416 comments philosophy
- Rather than understanding animal consciousness as “higher” or “lower” it can be better to distinguishes five key dimensions of variation: perceptual richness, evaluative richness, integration at a time, integration across time, and self-consciousness https://www.cell.com/trends/cognitive-sciences/fulltext/S1364-6613(20)30192-3 4 comments science
- What is consciousness like for other animals and when did it evolve? https://www.newscientist.com/article/mg25033420-700-what-is-consciousness-like-for-other-animals-and-when-did-it-evolve/?amp%3Butm_campaign=echobox&%3Butm_medium=social&%3Butm_source=Twitter#Echobox=1625908916 4 comments nature
- Dimensions of Animal Consciousness https://www.cell.com/trends/cognitive-sciences/fulltext/S1364-6613(20)30192-3?d 4 comments cogsci
- Drawing the boundaries of animal consciousness https://animalstudiesrepository.org/animsent/vol5/iss29/13/ 5 comments science
- Conscious plants: new study shows plants react to anesthetics in a similar fashion to animals https://www.nytimes.com/2018/02/02/science/plants-consciousness-anesthesia.html?&moduledetail=section-news-0&action=click&contentcollection=science&region=footer&module=moreinsection&version=whatsnex 20 comments science
- Reddit seems pretty interested in the intersection of philosophy and science (consciousness, AI, etc.). Here's a short, animated explanation of Bertrand's Paradox, a famous problem for scientific reasoning and probability theory! https://www.youtube.com/watch?amp%3Bindex=17&%3Blist=PLtKNX4SfKpzUURFV6ucpn2TGaZYqXyrai&v=xy6xXEhbGa0 42 comments philosophy
- Colin McLear - "Kant on Animal Consciousness" http://quod.lib.umich.edu/p/phimp/3521354.0011.015/--kant-on-animal-consciousness?view=image 3 comments philosophy
- Moscow bans Islamic sacrifice of fully-conscious animals for upcoming Muslim holiday of Eid http://www.barenakedislam.com/2014/10/04/yes-moscow-bans-islamic-sacrifice-of-fully-conscious-animals-for-upcoming-muslim-holiday-of-eid/ 8 comments worldnews
- Prominent scientists sign declaration that animals have conscious awareness, just like us http://io9.com/5937356/prominent-scientists-sign-declaration-that-animals-have-conscious-awareness-just-like-us 23 comments worldnews
- Consciousness in humans and non-human animals: recent advances and future directions http://www.frontiersin.org/journal/10.3389/fpsyg.2013.00625/full?utm_source=npg&utm_medium=facebook&utm_content=content+marketing&utm_campaign=fbk_sm_1311_fpsyg&wt.mc_id=fbk_sm_1311_fpsyg 7 comments science
- scientists sign declaration that animals have conscious awareness http://www.stumbleupon.com/su/21qxhw/io9.com/5937356/prominent-scientists-sign-declaration-that-animals-have-conscious-awareness-just-like-us/ 5 comments science
- Animal Consciousness http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/cosmicvariance/2012/08/31/animal-consciousness/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=feed%3A+discoverphysicsmath+%28discover+physics+%26+math%29&utm_content=google+reader 18 comments cogsci
- 'The Cambridge Declaration On Consciousness,' prominent scientists the world over declare that many animals have consciousness. http://io9.com/5937356/prominent-scientists-sign-declaration-that-animals-have-conscious-awareness-just-like-us?fb_action_ids=10151373677008047&fb_action_types=og.recommends&fb_source=other_multiline&action_object_map=%7B%2210151373677008047%22%3A10151853697005931%7D&action_type_map=%7B%2210151373677008047%22%3A%22og.recommends%22%7D&action_ref_map=%5B%5D 10 comments science
- There is an emerging consensus among scientists that animals share functional parallels with humans' conscious metacognition, our ability to reflect on our own mental processes and guide and optimize them http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2012/03/120322131504.htm 32 comments science
- At what point of consciousness is it unethical to kill an animal? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Koko_%28gorilla%29 58 comments reddit.com
- Evidence Points To Conscious 'Metacognition' In Some Nonhuman Animals http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/09/090914172644.htm 40 comments cogsci
- Talking to whales: can AI bridge the chasm between our consciousness and other animals? | Whales https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2022/sep/18/talking-to-whales-with-artificial-enterprise-it-may-soon-be-possible 20 comments futurology
- The idea that animals aren't sentient and don't feel pain is ridiculous. Unfortunately, most of the blame falls to philosophers and a new mysticism about consciousness. https://iai.tv/articles/animal-pain-and-the-new-mysticism-about-consciousness-auid-981&utm_source=reddit&_auid=2020 1102 comments philosophy
- Plants Neither Possess nor Require Consciousness - Although ‘plant neurobiologists’ have claimed that plants possess many of the same mental features as animals, such as consciousness, cognition, emotions, and the ability to feel pain, evidence for these abilities in plants is highly problematic. https://www.livescience.com/65905-plants-dont-think-or-feel.html 18 comments science
- Scientists demonstrate that (like bees and other animals) humans too can (subconsciously) detect the Earth's magnetic field - subjects were not consciously aware, but EEG data suggests responses were tuned to Earth-like (strength and direction) magnetic fields http://www.eneuro.org/content/early/2019/03/18/eneuro.0483-18.2019 7 comments science
- Scientists Finally Conclude Nonhuman Animals Are Conscious Beings http://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/animal-emotions/201208/scientists-finally-conclude-nonhuman-animals-are-conscious-beings?goback=.gde_120409_member_271369413#! 4 comments nottheonion
- Scientists Finally Conclude Nonhuman Animals Are Conscious Beings http://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/animal-emotions/201208/scientists-finally-conclude-nonhuman-animals-are-conscious-beings?goback=.gde_120409_member_271369413#! 881 comments science
- Science Concludes Animals are Conscious Beings. http://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/animal-emotions/201208/scientists-finally-conclude-nonhuman-animals-are-conscious-beings?goback=.gde_120409_member_271369413#! 16 comments worldnews
- Animals have thoughts, feelings and personality, so why has science taken so long to catch up with animal consciousness? http://www.aeonmagazine.com/nature-and-cosmos/the-science-of-animal-consciousness/ 16 comments philosophy
- Scientists Finally Conclude Nonhuman Animals Are Conscious Beings http://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/animal-emotions/201208/scientists-finally-conclude-nonhuman-animals-are-conscious-beings 3 comments nottheonion
- Dogs have learn to navigate subways: Moscow subway use by stray dogs "are just one of what are now thousands of recorded examples of wild, feral and domesticated animals demonstrating what appears, at least, to be what humans might call flexible open-ended reasoning and conscious thought." http://abcnews.go.com/international/technology/stray-dogs-master-complex-moscow-subway-system/story?id=10145833#.t-yadswmwsp 10 comments science
- Electrical signatures of consciousness in the dying brain: A University of Michigan animal study shows high electrical activity in the brain after clinical death http://www.uofmhealth.org/news/archive/201308/electrical-signatures-consciousness-dying-brain 1114 comments science
- How do animals consciously control chromatophores? How do their brains interface with the cells? https://www.reddit.com/r/askscience/comments/5gglgn/how_do_animals_consciously_control_chromatophores/ 11 comments askscience
- 'The ethics of consciousness, not just in humans but also animals and machines, is complex. To try and make sense of it, research is currently underway to develop a method for objectively measuring consciousness -- a formula that could explain how aware any living, or artificial, being is.' http://www.wired.co.uk/news/archive/2015-10/07/how-much-consciousness-octopus-iphone 497 comments philosophy
- Pinpointing consciousness in animal brain using mouse ‘brain map’. New study identifies network cores of the brain with strong bidirectional connections https://www.eurekalert.org/news-releases/960362 7 comments science
- The Rise in the Number of Farm Animals Being Slaughtered by Having Their Throats Cut While Fully Conscious is "Unacceptable", says former president of the British Veterinary Association - Calls for action to curb throat-cutting without prior stunning, as it can cause unnecessary suffering http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2012/may/05/vet-condemns-slaughter-farm-animals 172 comments worldnews
- City slaughtering 13,000 dogs a month to match demand for animal's meat - Video footage captured in slaughterhouses in the Indonesian city of Surakarta shows the animals being beaten and strung up to bleed out while still conscious https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/asia/dogs-slaughtered-meat-death-toll-trade-indonesia-solo-investigation-a8975371.html 462 comments worldnews
- Interview with Harvard University Professor of Philosophy Christine Korsgaard about her new book "Fellow Creatures: Our Obligations to the Other Animals" in which she argues that humans have a duty to value our fellow creatures not as tools, but as sentient beings capable of consciousness https://phys.org/news/2019-06-case-animals-important-people.html 43 comments books
- Interview with Harvard University Professor of Philosophy Christine Korsgaard about her new book "Fellow Creatures: Our Obligations to the Other Animals" in which she argues that humans have a duty to value our fellow creatures not as tools, but as sentient beings capable of consciousness https://phys.org/news/2019-06-case-animals-important-people.html 461 comments philosophy
- Consciousness in humans, animals and artificial intelligence. The new concept describes consciousness as a state that is tied to complex cognitive operations – and not as a passive basic state that automatically prevails when we are awake. https://news.rub.de/english/press-releases/2021-12-20-psychology-consciousness-humans-animals-and-artificial-intelligence 50 comments science
- How Philadelphia Eagles linebacker Connor Barwin — a bike-riding, socially conscious, Animal Collective–loving hipster — is redefining what it means to be a football player. http://www.grantland.com/story/_/id/10001087/connor-barwin-philadelphia-eagles-linebacker-nfl-hipster 16 comments nfl