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#29 Richard Swinburne - Souls, Free Will and the Problem of Evil

Within Reason

CHAPTER

The Moral Development of Animals

I think the higher animals are conscious. I see every reason to suppose art because consciousness depends on the cortex and they don't have brains like ours. So there's no reason to suppose that there are in them parts which give rise to pains. And indeed, it's always worth noting that when you stick a pain in me and I feel something, there are two things going on. There are two nervous paths from the place of the injury to my brain. One of them determines how I react. The other one determines how I feel. Yes. These are the only ones I think one can be confident about. But I don't think they feel as much as us. If you put them

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