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Letter: What we need to prove is absence of consciousness

Published 24 July 2024

From Graham Jones, Fochabers, Moray, UK

Recent talk of consciousness in various organisms has got me thinking. Rather than trying to investigate whether organism X has consciousness, surely a more ethical standpoint would be to assume by default that they are all conscious, so any investigation should be reversed. I suspect it would be hard to prove the absence of consciousness (Letters, 6 July).

Issue no. 3501 published 27 July 2024

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