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Re:Are animals conscious? How new research is changing minds by jprete on Tuesday June 18, 2024 @11:03AM (#40718618)
I expect that most ancient people believed that animals were conscious. It's impossible to spend a lot of time with any mammal and think of it as not being aware of anything.

For what it's worth, my Googling suggested that the Bible leans in the direction of animals having souls and going to the afterlife, as well.

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Re:Are animals conscious? How new research is changing minds by FrustratedMonky on Tuesday June 18, 2024 @11:28AM (#40718928)
Of course there are a million opinions on the Bible. I would have said on my quick search it is opposite, animals aren't conscious. But these are rough searches.

My experience with American Christians, Catholic, Southern Baptist, is that animals don't have souls, and are not conscious.

But, there is some cute story about some cute kid asking the Pope if dogs go to heaven, and he said 'good dogs'. So that might have accidentally opened the doors.

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