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The question isn’t how can you be more like us; it’s ‘how can you be more like who you really are.
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― The Secrets of the Animals: Inside Your Amazing Neighborhood
― The Secrets of the Animals: Inside Your Amazing Neighborhood
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Feelings are widely taken to be necessary and sufficient conditions for ethical concern. The scientific understanding of feelings outlined in this book therefore presents us with an opportunity to think a little more deeply about animal suffering. I have mentioned more than once how the advances in affective neuroscience in the late twentieth century (i.e. the realisation that what is required for sentient being is little more than a midbrain decision triangle, something that we share with all v
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― The Hidden Spring: A Journey to the Source of Consciousness
― The Hidden Spring: A Journey to the Source of Consciousness