I had a chance yesterday to talk about animal sentience on ABC radio, alongside Professor Peter Godfrey-Smith. You can hear the episode here:
https://www.abc.net.au/listen/programs/nightlife/animal-sentience/104958200
https://www.abc.net.au/listen/programs/nightlife/animal-sentience/104958200
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The struggle with using vocabulary and concepts - 'intelligence' 'thinking' - to try to understand the inner life of non-human species is clearly fraught. Sounds like the tendency of people to lump all 'animals' or 'birds' into a homogenous 'biomass' makes clarity tricky!