Philosopher. How animal cognition research informs philosophy, and vice versa. Social norms, evolution of tech, ToM, personhood, consciousness, AI. Prof and York Research Chair in Animal Minds at YorkU and Prof at CUNY Grad Center. www.kristinandrews.org
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I spoke with Meagan Gillmore a few weeks ago about the Canadian sentience petition.
Reminds me of Hume's "Next to the ridicule of denying an evident truth, is that of taking much pains to defend it; and no truth appears to me more evident, than that beasts are endowed with thought and reason as well as men."
Cephalopods deserve higher welfare standards in research www.nature.com/articles/d41...
The Canadian government response to our petition on animal sentence was tabled. Highlight "Canadian courts have also recognized that animals are sentient beings in numerous cases dealing with animal cruelty prosecutions; sentience is a question of fact and science." www.ourcommons.ca/petitions/en...
Thanks to @jeyantvo.bsky.social for talking with me about the ethics of using AI to communicate with animals, research I did with @marriah.bsky.social and published in Topoi link.springer.com/article/10.1...
Fun conversation!
Let's remember that good science doesn't come from traumatized animals, that there are alternatives to animal studies caat.jhsph.edu and that animals like macaques are sentient, thinking, social persons tinyurl.com/3he2s4tu whose use in research has a moral cost tinyurl.com/2wtpb8sh
