What’s it like being a raven or a crow?

By Walter Veit, Lecturer, Department of Philosophy, University of Reading
Heather Browning, Lecturer in Philosophy, University of Southampton

Many of us as children may have wondered what’s going on inside the mind of an animal – what are they thinking and feeling? Most animal researchers study science because of their fascination with animals, but for a long time scientific norms made it impossible to even raise the question of animal consciousness without losing scientific credibility.

Fortunately, those days have ended, thanks in large part to pioneering work by scientists such as Donald Griffin, who argued from the 1980s to…

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