"Human" consciousness is NOT uniquely human after all!
I have always known/believed this, because it is blatantly obvious, but now science is says so, too: An international group of prominent scientists has signed The Cambridge Declaration on Consciousness in which they are proclaiming their support for the idea that animals are conscious and aware to the degree that humans are - a list of animals that includes all mammals, birds, and even the octopus.
Here is the declaration itself.
I have gotten into so many arguments about this over the years, well, this is deeply satisfying. Beyond that, it is critically important for animals, although probably too little, too late.
Also in the IN YOUR FACE file:
That absurd myth about hair growing back thicker or more thickly after shaving is FUCKING BULLSHIT, just like I told my mother when I was a kid. Good GOD, y'all.
I have, perhaps unbelievably, gotten into debates about this, too, but they were never as heated as the ones about animal consciousness.
Anyway.
Here is the declaration itself.
I have gotten into so many arguments about this over the years, well, this is deeply satisfying. Beyond that, it is critically important for animals, although probably too little, too late.
Also in the IN YOUR FACE file:
That absurd myth about hair growing back thicker or more thickly after shaving is FUCKING BULLSHIT, just like I told my mother when I was a kid. Good GOD, y'all.
I have, perhaps unbelievably, gotten into debates about this, too, but they were never as heated as the ones about animal consciousness.
Anyway.