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A young chimp enumerates favorite playtime activities, from painting and riding a bike to paddling in the sea and partying with friends.
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Neuroscience and the Problem of Other Animal Minds: Why It May Not Matter So Much for Neuroethics
A recent argument in the neuroethics literature has suggested that brain-mental-state identities (one popular expression of what is commonly known as neuroreductionism) promise to settle epistemologieal uncertainties about nonhuman animal minds. What's more, these brain-mental-state identities offer the further promise of dismantling the deadlock over the moral status of nonhuman animals, to positive affect in such areas as agriculture and laboratory animal science. I will argue that neuroscientific claims assuming brain-mental-state identities do not so much resolve the problem of other animal minds as mark its resolution. In the meantime, we must rely on the tools available to us, including those provided by such behavioral sciences as cognitive ethology, comparative psychology, and ethology as well as the neurosciences. Focusing on captive animal research, I will also argue that humane experimentalists do not doubt that many of their research subjects have minds (in some substantive sense of that term). In that light, to suggest that the resolution of the problem of other animal minds would change the scientific use of animals misses the point at issue. Instead, what is required is a 'sea change' in the perceived grounds for human moral obligations to nonhumans. It is difficult to see how brain-mental-state identities could be the deciding factor in this continuing issue in applied ethics.
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Grumpy monkey spring fever
When Jim Panzee wakes up feeling silly, Norman playfully suggests Jim has spring fever, sparking excitement and chaos among Jim and their animal friends until Norman clarifies the true meaning of spring fever.
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Grumpy monkey
Jim Panzee wakes up in a bad mood one beautiful day, but he keeps denying he is grumpy even as his friends give advice for feeling better.
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When Science Blurs the Boundaries: The Commodification of the Animal in Young Adult Science Fiction
Hegemonic ideologies of anthropocentrism and speciesism maintain the great divide between nature/culture and animals/human-animals. Two young adult sf novels, Peter Dickinson's Eva and Ann Halam's (Gwyneth Jone's) Dr. Franklin's Island, explore futuristic societies in which the divide is bridged, advanced animal/human-animal hybrids are created, hierarchical structures are destabilized, and humanity's evolutionary superiority is challenged. This essay specifically focuses on the ideologically loaded issues of biotechnological possibility, animal experimentation, and the marginalization and commodification of animals. Granting agency and subject status to animals and animal/human-animal hybrids, Dickinson and Halam suggest that rather than aiding and promoting human-animal superiority and innovation, biotechnology may be causing the end of humanity's reign.
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Hug
Bobo the chimp seeks hugs among various jungle animals and their young, but he does not get what he wants until he is reunited with his own parent.
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Grumpy monkey play all day
Jim Panzee learns that too much of anything, including having fun, has its downsides.
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Bernard and Juliet
In art, as in life, romance sometimes strikes when you least expect it. In Bernard Malamud’s short fiction, it’s certainly an anomalous occurrence, a sometimes almost comical state in contrast to the pathos of many of his other motifs. Romance à la Malamud is expressed by a number of quite traditional turns—one of the most apparent being the notion, formed in the Middle Ages, that attraction moves from the image of the desired one straight into the eye of the beholder with a certainty that we usually associate with the laws of physics.
On the question of love, Malamud
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