Nearly 40 researchers signed “The New York Declaration on Animal Consciousness,” which was first presented at a conference at ...

Some animals – and even machines – may turn out to be conscious. Must we wait for scientific certainty before sharing our ...

Animals like dogs, cats, octopuses and maybe insects might also be conscious, but they can't tell us that either. There are even problems with studying adult human consciousness. People might not ...

Consciousness is one of the great mysteries of science. We know we have it — we think, feel and experience the world — but ...

These feelings have the elusive property that philosophers like to call “phenomenal consciousness”. It feels like something to have them. In recent years, an interdisciplinary community of animal ...

Intelligence is fiendishly hard to define and measure, even in humans. The challenge grows exponentially in studying animals with sensory, motivational and problem-solving skills that differ ...

A planned octopus farm in Spain’s Canary Islands is attracting opposition from scientists and animal welfare advocates. Critics offer many arguments against raising octopuses for food ...