{"id":523,"date":"2012-08-26T21:45:49","date_gmt":"2012-08-26T21:45:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.innerquests.netstorms.org\/?p=523"},"modified":"2012-08-26T21:45:49","modified_gmt":"2012-08-26T21:45:49","slug":"are-animals-as-conscious-as-humans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/innerquests.chidakasha.co.uk\/index.php\/2012\/08\/26\/are-animals-as-conscious-as-humans\/","title":{"rendered":"Are animals as conscious as humans?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.innerquests.netstorms.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/extradimensional1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.innerquests.netstorms.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/extradimensional1.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"extradimensional1\" width=\"600\" height=\"235\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-524\" srcset=\"https:\/\/innerquests.chidakasha.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/extradimensional1.jpg 680w, https:\/\/innerquests.chidakasha.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/extradimensional1-300x118.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/stripgenerator.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Strip Generator<\/a> is a flexible tool for those of us who want to make cartoons but have no drawing skills ..<\/p>\n<p>This cartoon refers to a report that scientists support &#8216;the idea that animals are conscious and aware to the degree that humans are&#8217;, is important. I&#8217;m not entirely sure why. Some people would say that this kind of acknowledgement should make a difference to the way we treat animals &#8230; but then we don&#8217;t treat other humans all that well. Also consciousness is now that well defined in humans and some scientists assert that it is an illusion .. though what &#8216;illusion&#8217; can mean in this context must be puzzling and contradictory.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Strip Generator is a flexible tool for those of us who want to make cartoons but have no drawing skills .. This cartoon refers to a report that scientists support &#8216;the idea that animals are conscious and aware to the degree that humans are&#8217;, is important. I&#8217;m not entirely sure why. Some people would&#8230;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"><a class=\"btn btn-default\" href=\"https:\/\/innerquests.chidakasha.co.uk\/index.php\/2012\/08\/26\/are-animals-as-conscious-as-humans\/\"> Read More<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">  Read More<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,37],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/innerquests.chidakasha.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/523"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/innerquests.chidakasha.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/innerquests.chidakasha.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/innerquests.chidakasha.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/innerquests.chidakasha.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=523"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/innerquests.chidakasha.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/523\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/innerquests.chidakasha.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=523"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/innerquests.chidakasha.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=523"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/innerquests.chidakasha.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=523"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}