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#32 Destiny - Testing Destiny's Ethics

Within Reason

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The Consciousness of Animals

We can't even imagine other people's minds. How could we imagine that there's any sort of actual experience going on in the mind of an animal like that? But I only care about other humans because I see that we have the same structure and thus like some conscious experiences, obviously arising, I would hold from a similar structure. Well, they have similar enough structures to think that when they exhibit signs that in human beings which indicate experience of severe physical pain, that they're feeling that too., he says.

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