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ANIMAL SENTIENCE
Should humans industrialize creatures that can feel and suffer? Spain’s octopus farm reignites debate and faces global backlashA Spanish company plans to open an octopus farm. This has caused global concern. Scientists and activists are worried about animal welfare....
06 Jul, 2025, 10.35 AM IST
Humanising AI could lead us to dehumanise ourselvesFor most of our history, we believed empathy was a uniquely human trait - a special ability that set us apart from machines and other anima...
21 Oct, 2024, 01.12 PM IST
No, robots can’t think or feel. Decoding the sentient debateThe problem is that the people closest to the technology live with one foot in the future.
06 Aug, 2022, 05.11 PM IST
Artificially bright or genuinely daft?Watson studied data on what people connected with in award-winning commercials over the last 15 years, and wrote a script for a car that co...
26 Nov, 2018, 11.19 PM IST
Animal RitesIt may not realise what that means in the long term or metaphysical sense, but for most people when they think of it, it’s a lot like havin...
08 May, 2014, 02.00 AM IST
- Superman and man
What have you done to overcome him? All beings so far have created something beyond themselves; do you want to be the ebb of this great flo...
29 Apr, 2014, 06.25 AM IST
The burden of thinking animalsDoes attachment cause suffering in the animal world too? Now, there’s a modern day koan for novitiates who consider the words of the master...
24 Jul, 2009, 12.05 AM IST
Ultimate aim of evolutionHow boring is it not to know what boredom is? Or, to put it another way, how difficult is it to live without knowing what life is? Apparent...
31 Oct, 2008, 02.48 AM IST