Do Animals Feel?

[Article] To many of us who are pet owners, the question is a stupid one. Of course, we say, animals can feel. However, this view has only been accepted widely for a comparatively small amount of time.

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It was René Descartes in the 1600s who described animals as having no emotional capacity. In his eyes they were little more than complicated automata.Voltaire disagreed completely, asserting that if the animal forms had a similar biological structure to our own, then they must have a similar emotional...
This article was published Saturday, 14 July, 2007 by AFP
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Do Animals Feel?


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