Animal Sentience: An Interdisciplinary Journal on Animal Feeling
December 30, 2016 8:37 PM Subscribe
In Animal Sentience this year, Brian Key's "Why fish do not feel pain" provoked over 40 replies, including intriguing comments on tigerfish, rays and cichlids, mormyrids, invertebrates, plants, and robot fish but also comments written or co-authored by people who've been on the blue before: Lynne Sneddon (previously), Antonio Damasio (previously), and Culum Brown (previously). Less controversial threads of related interest include those on animal mourning and insect subjectivity.
I've always found this take on the nature of consciousness fascinating and appealing, and much more forgiving to the idea of animal sentience(/consciousness) than is usually the case: Consciousness as Recursive, Spatio-Temporal Self-Location.
posted by Drexen at 10:38 AM on December 31, 2016
posted by Drexen at 10:38 AM on December 31, 2016
Kind of disconcerting to see that insects might have some degree of sentience.
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