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What is good for an octopus?

What is good for an octopus?
What is good for an octopus?

Mather (2019) has brought together the current empirical research in support of the claim that octopuses possess minds; and the weight of the evidence does appear to support octopus sentience. Being sentient means an organism has welfare concerns, a subjective experience of life that can go well or poorly. Protecting welfare requires knowing what conditions will have a positive or negative impact. Understanding what is in the mind of an octopus will give us valuable insight into what is good for an octopus.

Browning, Heather
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Browning, Heather
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Browning, Heather (2019) What is good for an octopus? Animal Sentience, 4 (26), [7]. (doi:10.51291/2377-7478.1476).

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Mather (2019) has brought together the current empirical research in support of the claim that octopuses possess minds; and the weight of the evidence does appear to support octopus sentience. Being sentient means an organism has welfare concerns, a subjective experience of life that can go well or poorly. Protecting welfare requires knowing what conditions will have a positive or negative impact. Understanding what is in the mind of an octopus will give us valuable insight into what is good for an octopus.

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Submitted date: 4 June 2019
Accepted/In Press date: 6 June 2019
Published date: 2019
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Local EPrints ID: 490239
URI: http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/id/eprint/490239
DOI: doi:10.51291/2377-7478.1476
PURE UUID: 4713666b-55ba-47de-a8ce-0aa33dd5ff60
ORCID for Heather Browning: ORCID iD orcid.org/0000-0003-1554-7052

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Date deposited: 20 May 2024 17:45
Last modified: 21 May 2024 02:04

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