Prominent scientists sign declaration that animals have conscious awareness, just like us.

[p1ngpong]

This is just a load of tree hugging hippie propaganda that is just trying to guilt trip the average guy while he is tucking into his steak or bucket of KFC for dinner.

 

[Flame]

I am in shock that animals have conscious awareness, so much so that I almost wasn't going to eat my tuna, bacon, chicken, beef sandwich.

 

[FAST6191]

No. Meat is an implied expression for dead meat. Dead = no thought.

That could get interesting with certain animals that possess a more exotic/distributed nervous system.

 

[Armadillo]

Meh, won't stop me eating them.

 

[Kouen Hasuki]

I don't care I am still eating bacon

 

[tbgtbg]

Prominent scientists? More like political activists who happen be be scientists in their day job.

 

[BORTZ]

not going to stop me from eating them.

 

[Kouen Hasuki]

*still chewing on bacon*

 

[Celice]

I thought it was common knowledge that many mammals possess states of cognitive awareness. It's only humans seem to demonstrate self-awareness in a striking degree. How we've defined self-awareness, its contingencies and necessities, has influenced whether we regard other animals as also possessing self-awareness, rather than mere awareness (for example, gophers, dolphins, and some kinds of octopus have exemplified use of semantic-based languages, but is this is a quality of self-awareness of basic cognition?).

 

[Rockhoundhigh]

So, philosoraptor was never actually a joke...

 

[Gahars]

Are they conscious of how delicious they are?

 

[FAST6191]

philosoraptor

I think I may have just found my new favourite word.

 

[Rydian]

I think I may have just found my new favourite word.

etc.
http://knowyourmeme.com/memes/philosoraptor

 

[the_randomizer]

*Reads article* That's nice

Spoiler

 

[Frank Cadena]

Their despair tastes delicious... /jk

Jokes aside, told me nothing that I didn't know already.

 

[Veho]

I thought it was common knowledge that many mammals possess states of cognitive awareness. It's only humans seem to demonstrate self-awareness in a striking degree. How we've defined self-awareness, its contingencies and necessities, has influenced whether we regard other animals as also possessing self-awareness, rather than mere awareness (for example, gophers, dolphins, and some kinds of octopus have exemplified use of semantic-based languages, but is this is a quality of self-awareness of basic cognition?).

The universal litmus test for self-awareness used to be the mirror test, and surprisingly few animals managed to pass it. I'm guessing the prominent scientists in question concluded it wasn't reliable and came up with a new criterion.

 

[JoostinOnline]

Scientists: "Even though nobody doubts animals are aware of what's going on, and do things for a reason, let's sign a declaration that points out we agree with the obvious!"

What a stupid article.

 

[dickfour]

This is such nonsense. Why don't they state the obvious that life consumes life. That's why I eat octopus and many mammals.I treat them like shit despite their conciousness but but they taste good so I don't care.

 

[Rydian]

ITT: "I knew it already, so that means it's a worldwide accepted fact."

Just like "child porn is bad" is a worldwide accepted fact. Wait no, child prostitutes are seen daily in some countries.

 

[JoostinOnline]

ITT: "I knew it already, so that means it's a worldwide accepted fact."

Show me a person who believes animals are incapable of thought.