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Making the Animals on the Plate Visible: Anglophone Celebrity Chef Cookbooks Ranked by Sentient Animal Deaths [PDF]

open access: yes, 2018
Recent decades have witnessed the rise of chefs to a position of cultural prominence. This rise has coincided with increased consciousness of ethical issues pertaining to food, particularly as they concern animals.
Lamey, Andy, Sharpless, Ike
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Unlearning Descartes: Sentient AI is a Political Problem

open access: yesJournal of Social Computing, 2023
The emergence of Large Language Models (LLMs) has renewed debate about whether Artificial Intelligence (AI) can be conscious or sentient. This paper identifies two approaches to the topic and argues: (1) A “Cartesian” approach treats consciousness ...
Gordon Hull
doaj   +1 more source

Semantic-role prominence is contingent on referent prominence in discourse: Experimental evidence from impersonals and passives in Polish

open access: yesGlossa, 2022
The present paper reports two acceptability-rating experiments and a supporting corpus study for Polish that tested the acceptability and frequency of five verb classes (WATCH, SEE, HATE, KNOW, EXHIBIT), entailing different sets of agentivity features ...
Beatrice Primus †   +2 more
doaj   +2 more sources

Why Biology is Beyond Physical Sciences? [PDF]

open access: yes, 2016
In the framework of materialism, the major attention is to find general organizational laws stimulated by physical sciences, ignoring the uniqueness of Life.
Muni, Bhakti Vijnana   +1 more
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Welfare in Farmed Decapod Crustaceans, With Particular Reference to Penaeus vannamei

open access: yesFrontiers in Marine Science, 2022
The farming of decapod crustaceans is a key economic driver in many countries, with production reaching around 9.4 million tonnes (USD 69.3 billion) in 2018.
Amaya Albalat   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source

Assessing the Welfare of Captive Group-Housed Cockroaches, Gromphadorhina oblongonota

open access: yesAnimals, 2023
The welfare of invertebrates under human care is of growing concern, particularly with the increasing interest in insect farming as an environmentally sustainable means of producing food.
Danielle Free, Sarah Wolfensohn
doaj   +1 more source

Computational animal welfare: towards cognitive architecture models of animal sentience, emotion and wellbeing [PDF]

open access: yesRoyal Society Open Science, 2020
To understand animal wellbeing, we need to consider subjective phenomena and sentience. This is challenging, since these properties are private and cannot be observed directly.
Sergey Budaev   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

Panpsychism: Ubiquitous Sentience [PDF]

open access: yes, 2018
This public article presents three arguments for the plausibility of panpsychism: the view that sentience is a fundamental and ubiquitous element of actuality. Thereafter is presented a brief exploration of why panpsychism has been spurned. The
Sjöstedt-H., Peter
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Psychosocial Outcomes in Patients With Endocrine Tumor Syndromes: A Systematic Review

open access: yesPediatric Blood &Cancer, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Introduction The combination of disease manifestations, the familial burden, and varying penetrance of endocrine tumor syndromes (ETSs) is unique. This review aimed to portray and summarize available data on psychosocial outcomes in patients with ETSs and explore gaps and opportunities for future research and care.
Daniël Zwerus   +6 more
wiley   +1 more source

The Great God Pan is Not Dead – A. N. Whitehead and the Psychedelic Mode of Perception [PDF]

open access: yes, 2017
Through Alfred North Whitehead’s metaphysics, the Philosophy of Organism, it will be argued that psychedelic experience is a vertical, lateral and temporal integration of ...
Sjöstedt-H., Peter
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