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[New Entry by Laura Danón on September 24, 2026.]
Can non-human animals think? If they can, what kinds of thoughts do they have? What intellectual and cognitive processes are involved in their thinking? And how do these thoughts vary from species to species? All of these questions are highly controversial and have sparked heated debates, both philosophical and empirical, over the past few decades….

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