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Why Scientists Are Rethinking The Whole Idea Of Animal Consciousness

IDEAS Posted: February 11, 2019 12:01 pm

This idea that animals are conscious was long unpopular in the West, but it has lately found favor among scientists who study animal cognition. And not just the obvious cases—primates, dogs, elephants, whales, and others. Scientists are now finding evidence of an inner life in alien-seeming creatures that evolved on ever-more-distant limbs of life’s tree. – The Atlantic

IDEAS Published: 02.11.19

Read the story in The Atlantic Published: 02.11.19

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