Tag: Irene Pepperberg

  • The Cambridge Declaration on Consciousness

    Almost one year ago, an international group of prominent scientists signed The Cambridge Declaration on Consciousness in which they proclaimed: “The absence of a neocortex does not appear to preclude an organism from experiencing affective states. Convergent evidence indicates that non-human animals have the neuroanatomical, neurochemical, and neurophysiological substrates of conscious states along with the capacity to exhibit intentional behaviors.…