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Can you believe that despite obvious evidence that animals are conscious in the same way that humans are, so many people think they're not? I'm flabbergasted.
Anyway, new research has finally suggested that they are and convinced only some scientists. Damn, it needed in-depth scientific study and analysis toprove suggest the bleedin' obvious. Well done, guys. ![Roll eyes :rolleyes: :rolleyes:](data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7)
Anyway, new research has finally suggested that they are and convinced only some scientists. Damn, it needed in-depth scientific study and analysis to
Charles Darwin enjoys a near god-like status among scientists for his theory of evolution. But his ideas that animals are conscious in the same way humans are have long been shunned. Until now.
"There is no fundamental difference between man and animals in their ability to feel pleasure and pain, happiness, and misery," Darwin wrote.
But his suggestion that animals think and feel was seen as scientific heresy among many, if not most animal behaviour experts.
Attributing consciousness to animals based on their responses was seen as a cardinal sin. The argument went that projecting human traits, feelings, and behaviours onto animals had no scientific basis and there was no way of testing what goes on in animals’ minds.
But if new evidence emerges of animals’ abilities to feel and process what is going on around them, could that mean they are, in fact, conscious?
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Are animals conscious? Some scientists now think they are
A series of experiments have led a number of scientists to say animals may be conscious.
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