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Famed primatologist Frans de Waal and marine mammal scientist and cognitive psychologist Diana Reiss joined our director of sciences Janna Levin in conversation to explore the possibilities of animal consciousness. Our signature series Scientific Controversies opened Sci Con 19: Animal Consciousness to a packed audience full of cheers of animal lovers and Sci Con devotees.
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You can have the emotion of crying – but why is about the feelings… you can cry for happiness or sadness.
Janna is a rockstar!
Love everything about her.
Western science has this bull-headed arrogance that refuses to believe opinions of the rest of the global corpus of science and philosophy. Eastern philosophy has for centuries talked about not just animals, but all living creatures possessing consciousness and an awareness of self, same as human beings. It affords the same amount of dignity to mute creatures as it does to human beings. Western science had a hard time reconciling with the fact that animals are conscious and sentient due to its vested interest in the exploitation of animals for research and food. I hope that this talk and other evidence that emerges in the western framework awakens people to animal sentience, not only in dogs, chimps and dolphins, but also in all living beings, including plants.
Thank you really fascinating
When is Part II?