The scientific study of animal affect (emotion) is an area of growing interest. Whilst research
on mechanism and causation has predominated, the study of function is less advanced. This …

Globally, there is increasing pressure to find solutions for feeding the growing human
population. One of the proposed answers to this problem is to farm edible insects, both for …

There is no agreement on whether any invertebrates are conscious and no agreement on a
methodology that could settle the issue. How can the debate move forward? I distinguish …

Recent decades have seen a flourishing of scholarship on wellbeing. Looking ahead, the
next frontier may be engaging with the possibility of non-human forms of wellbeing. This …

Predictive processing approaches to brain function are increasingly delivering promise for
illuminating the computational underpinnings of a wide range of phenomenological states. It …

Simple Summary Why do we need a collection of papers about the welfare of invertebrates,
and what do we need to learn from it? The most important reason is that they make up most …

This paper assesses two different theories for explaining consciousness, a phenomenon
that is widely considered amenable to scientific investigation despite its puzzling subjective …

The challenging issue of animal welfare has focused mainly on furred and feathered
vertebrates. However, unnoticed by most people, literally billions of insects are kept in …

Recent years have seen increasing public attention regarding unidentified anomalous
phenomena (UAP). Hypotheses for such phenomena tend to fall into two classes: a …

The appearance of consciousness in the universe remains one of the major mysteries
unsolved by science or philosophy. Absent an agreed-upon definition of consciousness or …