Comments | khall: Animals are people too!

khall

Animals are people too!

Mar 22, 2013 18:50

http://io9.com/5937356/prominent-scientists-sign-declaration-that-animals-have-conscious-awareness-just-like-us

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bound_dragon March 23 2013, 03:08:38 UTC

They just now figured that out?

relinquish2you April 9 2013, 18:24:44 UTC

I'm so sorry to be a killjoy over this (and yes, my lab is known for this sort of thing), but it is totally *not* parsimonious to declare that animals have consciousness. My lab has always had beef with the Cambridge lab over this (and the primatologist labs that argue over theory of mind, or ToM ( ... )