It turns out, ironically enough, that designing accurate and appropriate intelligence tests for animals, tests our intelligence. Recently the Wall Street Journal ran an article by Frans de Waal about animal intelligence and the difficulties in creating appropriate tests. Please take a few minutes to read de Waal’s article, it is quite interesting. We seem to be an insecure […]
Tag: animal welfare
Pain free animals
Over the past few months there has been some discussion about genetically engineered pain free farm animals. Here is the abstract from the journal Neuroethics. The author of the Neuroethics article, Adam Shriver recently discussed his proposal in a New York Times Op-Ed piece. At first glance you, like the people in a small Johns […]
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