Premature declarations on animal consciousness hinder progress
Vasco Grilo🔸
Published on May 23, 2026 9:21 AM GMT [Subtitle.] Overstating the evidence in support of animal consciousness could impede efforts to develop more accurate ways of assessing it. This is a crosspost for Premature declarations on animal consciousness hinder progress by Hakwan Lau , which was originally published on The Transmitter on 18 November 2024. Relatedly, I liked Hakwan's article The End of Consciousness . Internal states: Empirical investigation of phenomenal consciousness, a term used to