Animal Consciousness

Dawkins' Dangerous Idea: We Really Don't Know If Animals Are Conscious

Marc Bekoff | Posted 05.16.2012

Read More: Animal Thinking, Animal Consciousness, Animal Emotions, Animal Minds, Minds of Animals, Animal Brains, Animals Emotions, Why Animals Matter, Animal-Consciousnes, Anthropomorphic Animals, Animals Matter, Denver News
Marc Bekoff

While the mystery of consciousness, nonhuman and human remains, we have made great advances in reducing the explanatory gap.

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Chimpanzees in the Crossfire: Are They Really More Clever Than Us?

Marc Bekoff | Posted 10.22.2011

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Marc Bekoff

There's much continued debate about how clever we are and how clever other animals are. This was among the wide variety of topics discussed at a recen...

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The Inner Life: Nature And Transcendence

Ross Robertson | Posted 11.17.2011

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Ross Robertson

I spent a good portion of my first twenty years chasing after that mysterious pulse of the endless so easily found in wilderness and wild places.

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Perspectives on Integral Ecology--2

Ross Robertson | Posted 11.17.2011

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Ross Robertson

Animals (and presumably plants, too) have "worlds" of their own. Non-human life forms are not machines reacting to stimuli, but have their own ways of registering the phenomena that show up within their worlds.

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