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Great power and great responsibility: how consciousness changes the world

A vivid account of the evolution of minds will fill readers with wonder — and challenge how they think about their moral responsibility to protect the planet.
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  1. Alan C. Love

    1. Alan C. Love is in the Department of Philosophy and Minnesota Center for Philosophy of Science, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis.

A man in red trousers pushes a cart filled with chickens in a poultry farm.

People have a moral imperative to value the lives of the animals they control, and so should stop factory farming, argues Peter Godfrey-Smith. Credit: Chaideer Mahyuddin/AFP/Getty

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Nature 636, 32-34 (2024)

doi: https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-024-03916-y

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