386: What do animals dream about?
“In many ways, the core insight of the book is that for non-human animals, too, many of these indicators of brain activity are accompanied by a subjective phenomenology. There really is a subjective world that lights up when these animals are asleep, and that’s the dream world.”
This week we talk to philosopher and animal ethicist David Peña-Guzmán about his new book When Animals Dream: The Hidden World of Animal Consciousness. David explores the idea that there really is a subjective world—a dream world—that lights up when animals sleep, what that actually looks like, and its moral implications.
