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robofanatic on June 18, 2024 | parent | context | favorite | on: Are animals conscious? New research

> It's not just the Bible. It's virtually every religion and it's probably pre-religious. There's also no reason to assume that animals don't think the same way.

except Hinduism.

hughesjj on June 18, 2024 | [–]

And Jainism, and while I don't know much about the religions I'd imagine there's a ton of new world ones that don't treat animals as conscious

sgu999 on June 18, 2024 | [–]

I _think_ it's also the case for buddhism and taoism, so the shift may have happened somewhere in-between proto religions and abrahamic ones

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