Prominent Scientists Sign Declaration that Animals have Conscious Awareness
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Re: Prominent Scientists Sign Declaration that Animals have Conscious Awareness
#2Old. July 2012...
EDIT: to clarify, the title is very confusing because it makes you think they just signed it. It should be completed by a "2012" in the end. That's why I was disappointed when following the link. Nothing new.
Re: Prominent Scientists Sign Declaration that Animals have Conscious Awareness
#3Does this mean they know right from wrong? The article isn't very clear on what conscious awareness means.
Re: Prominent Scientists Sign Declaration that Animals have Conscious Awareness
#4Does this mean they know right from wrong? The article isn't very clear on what conscious awareness means.
How does consciousness imply morality?
Re: Prominent Scientists Sign Declaration that Animals have Conscious Awareness
#5Does this mean they know right from wrong? The article isn't very clear on what conscious awareness means.
Most humans don't know the answer to this question all of the time.
Re: Prominent Scientists Sign Declaration that Animals have Conscious Awareness
#6Old. July 2012... EDIT: to clarify, the title is very confusing because it makes you think they just signed it. It should be completed by a "2012" in the end. That's why I was disappointed when following the link. Nothing new.
I guess it is no longer relevant.
Re: Prominent Scientists Sign Declaration that Animals have Conscious Awareness
#7Re: Prominent Scientists Sign Declaration that Animals have Conscious Awareness
#8That's nice.
But too many people can't tell the difference between supporting an idea and publishing a repeatable experiment to test a falsifiable hypothesis in a peer reviewed journal.
Re: Prominent Scientists Sign Declaration that Animals have Conscious Awareness
#9So no turning cockroaches into cybernetic devices you can control with your iPhone then?
Re: Prominent Scientists Sign Declaration that Animals have Conscious Awareness
#10Does this mean they know right from wrong? The article isn't very clear on what conscious awareness means.
How does consciousness imply morality?
That is of course a big philosophical question. But in lieu of diving into that, because Wikipedia says so:
Conscience is an aptitude, faculty, intuition or judgment of the intellect that distinguishes right from wrong. Moral judgment may derive from values or norms (principles and rules). In psychological terms conscience is often described as leading to feelings of remorse when a human commits actions that go against his/her moral values and to feelings of rectitude or integrity when actions conform to such norms.[1] The extent to which conscience informs moral judgment before an action and whether such moral judgments are or should be based in reason has occasioned debate through much of the history of Western philosophy.[2]