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Author | Kirkwood, J.K. | ||||
Title | Animal minds and animal welfare | Type | Journal Article | ||
Year | 2000 | Publication | The Veterinary Record | Abbreviated Journal | Vet. Rec. |
Volume | 146 | Issue | 11 | Pages | 327 |
Keywords | *Animal Welfare; Animals; Animals, Domestic/*psychology; *Cognition; Consciousness; Veterinary Medicine/standards | ||||
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Language | English | Summary Language | Original Title | ||
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ISSN | 0042-4900 | ISBN | Medium | ||
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Notes | PMID:10766123 | Approved | no | ||
Call Number | Equine Behaviour @ team @ | Serial | 2856 | ||
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Author | Panksepp, J. | ||||
Title | Affective consciousness: Core emotional feelings in animals and humans | Type | Journal Article | ||
Year | 2005 | Publication | Consciousness and Cognition | Abbreviated Journal | Conscious Cogn |
Volume | 14 | Issue | 1 | Pages | 30-80 |
Keywords | Affect/*physiology; Animals; Bonding, Human-Pet; Brain/*physiology; Consciousness/*physiology; Fear; Humans; Limbic System/physiology; Social Behavior; Species Specificity; Unconscious (Psychology) | ||||
Abstract | The position advanced in this paper is that the bedrock of emotional feelings is contained within the evolved emotional action apparatus of mammalian brains. This dual-aspect monism approach to brain-mind functions, which asserts that emotional feelings may reflect the neurodynamics of brain systems that generate instinctual emotional behaviors, saves us from various conceptual conundrums. In coarse form, primary process affective consciousness seems to be fundamentally an unconditional “gift of nature” rather than an acquired skill, even though those systems facilitate skill acquisition via various felt reinforcements. Affective consciousness, being a comparatively intrinsic function of the brain, shared homologously by all mammalian species, should be the easiest variant of consciousness to study in animals. This is not to deny that some secondary processes (e.g., awareness of feelings in the generation of behavioral choices) cannot be evaluated in animals with sufficiently clever behavioral learning procedures, as with place-preference procedures and the analysis of changes in learned behaviors after one has induced re-valuation of incentives. Rather, the claim is that a direct neuroscientific study of primary process emotional/affective states is best achieved through the study of the intrinsic (“instinctual”), albeit experientially refined, emotional action tendencies of other animals. In this view, core emotional feelings may reflect the neurodynamic attractor landscapes of a variety of extended trans-diencephalic, limbic emotional action systems-including SEEKING, FEAR, RAGE, LUST, CARE, PANIC, and PLAY. Through a study of these brain systems, the neural infrastructure of human and animal affective consciousness may be revealed. Emotional feelings are instantiated in large-scale neurodynamics that can be most effectively monitored via the ethological analysis of emotional action tendencies and the accompanying brain neurochemical/electrical changes. The intrinsic coherence of such emotional responses is demonstrated by the fact that they can be provoked by electrical and chemical stimulation of specific brain zones-effects that are affectively laden. For substantive progress in this emerging research arena, animal brain researchers need to discuss affective brain functions more openly. Secondary awareness processes, because of their more conditional, contextually situated nature, are more difficult to understand in any neuroscientific detail. In other words, the information-processing brain functions, critical for cognitive consciousness, are harder to study in other animals than the more homologous emotional/motivational affective state functions of the brain. | ||||
Address | Department of Psychology, Bowling Green State University, Bowling Green, OH 43403, USA. jpankse@bgnet.bgsu.ed | ||||
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ISSN | 1053-8100 | ISBN | Medium | ||
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Notes | PMID:15766890 | Approved | no | ||
Call Number | Equine Behaviour @ team @ | Serial | 4159 | ||
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Author | Kozarovitskii, L.B. | ||||
Title | [Further comment on the distinction between humans and animals] | Type | Journal Article | ||
Year | 1988 | Publication | Nauchnye Doklady Vysshei Shkoly. Biologicheskie Nauki | Abbreviated Journal | Nauchnye Doki Vyss Shkoly Biol Nauki |
Volume | Issue | 3 | Pages | 42-45 | |
Keywords | Animals; Consciousness; Evolution; Humans; Mental Processes; *Philosophy; Thinking | ||||
Abstract | The problem of mind is considered in the aspect of natural scientific and philosophical problem of distinction between human and animal. The widespread confusion of the terms “rudiments”, “elements” of specifically human properties in animals and “biological prerequisites” of these properties are critically analysed. The idea is formulated according to which only in the process of anthropogenesis the rudiments of new social property--mind, conscience--could appear in the developing human beings. | ||||
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Language | Russian | Summary Language | Original Title | Eshche raz o grani mezhdu chelovecheskim i zhivotnym | |
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ISSN | 0470-4606 | ISBN | Medium | ||
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Notes | PMID:3382706 | Approved | no | ||
Call Number | Equine Behaviour @ team @ | Serial | 2800 | ||
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