WHAT DO ANIMALS WANT?
The questions I'm asking myself
are really about
how much we really know
about animal consciousness.
A lot of people think we do,
or think that we don't need
scientific evidence.
It really began to worry me
that people were
basing their arguments
on something
that we really can't know about at all.
One of the questions I asked myself was:
how much do we really know?
And is what we know the best basis
for arguing for animal welfare?
I've been thinking hard about that,
and I came to the conclusion
that the hard problem of consciousness
is actually very hard.
It's still there,
and we kid ourselves
if we think we've solved it.