When Animals Dream (eBook)

The Hidden World of Animal Consciousness

David M. Pena-Guzman (Autor)

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2022
272 Seiten
Princeton University Press (Verlag)
978-0-691-22010-9 (ISBN)

Infos

A spellbinding look at the philosophical and moral implications of animal dreamingAre humans the only dreamers on Earth? What goes on in the minds of animals when they sleep? When Animals Dream brings together behavioral and neuroscientific research on animal sleep with philosophical theories of dreaming. It shows that dreams provide an invaluable window into the cognitive and emotional lives of nonhuman animals, giving us access to a seemingly inaccessible realm of animal experience.David Pena-Guzman uncovers evidence of animal dreaming throughout the scientific literature, suggesting that many animals run "e;reality simulations"e; while asleep, with a dream-ego moving through a dynamic and coherent dreamscape. He builds a convincing case for animals as conscious beings and examines the thorny scientific, philosophical, and ethical questions it raises. Once we accept that animals dream, we incur a host of moral obligations and have no choice but to rethink our views about who animals are and the interior lives they lead.A mesmerizing journey into the otherworldly domain of nonhuman consciousness, When Animals Dream carries profound implications for contemporary debates about animal cognition, animal ethics, and animal rights, challenging us to regard animals as beings who matter, and for whom things matter.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 21.6.2022
• Zusatzinfo: 13 b/w illus. 1 table.
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Gesundheit / Leben / Psychologie
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Allgemeines / Lexika
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Ethik
• Schlagworte: abductive reasoning • Activation • affair • algorithm • American Psychological Association • Ammunition • amygdala • animal cognition • animal consciousness • Animal Dreams • animal rights • Augustine of Hippo • BDSM • Behavior • Bessel van der Kolk • Bioethics • Body schema • Boris Cyrulnik • Brainstem • Chimpanzee • Cognition • cognitive map • concept learning • Consciousness • Dan Zahavi • daydream • Delusion • Descartes' error • diaphragmatic breathing • disinhibition • Dorsolateral prefrontal cortex • Dream world (plot device) • Edmund Husserl • Elaboration • Emotion • Empathy • Epilogue • Existence • Existentialism • Explanation • facial expression • facial muscles • Feeling • Gaston Bachelard • hallucination • Heat exhaustion • Henry David Thoreau • human science • Imagination • Insomnia • Instance (computer science) • intentionality • Ipso facto • Isolation tank • Jean-Paul Sartre • John Searle • John Stuart Mill • KANTIANISM • lucid dream • Maurice Merleau-Ponty • Mental representation • Metacognition • Morality • Natural science • Ned Block • Neuron • persistent vegetative state • Phenomenology (psychology) • phenomenon • Philosopher • Philosophy • Philosophy of mind • philosophy of science • Physical property • Posterior cingulate • Posttraumatic stress disorder • prima facie • proverb • Psychiatry • Pyramidal cell • Qualia • rapid eye movement sleep • Rationality • Reality • Self-Actualization • self-concept • Self-control • Sleep • Social engagement • Spatial Memory • State of affairs (philosophy) • Subjective consciousness • The Interpretation of Dreams • theory • Thought • uniqueness • University College London • Value theory • Victorian Era • Zoology
• ISBN-10: 0-691-22010-7 / 0691220107
• ISBN-13: 978-0-691-22010-9 / 9780691220109