ABSTRACT
If we accept Griffin’s contentions as at least evening up the score on the issue of parsimony, are there any other considerations that ought to convince us that animals do not, in fact, think and feel as their conduct and the size of their brains makes it natural to suppose that they do? Or that their thoughts and feelings in particular situations are not roughly of the kind that we would expect them to be, when our expectations are based on human experience gathered over the ages, experience both of our own species and of those around it? Is there, for instance, any good reason to suppose that a baby rhesus monkey, when removed from its mother at birth and placed in a stainless steel well, does not feel something like the same kind of misery and fear that a human baby might be expected to feel in the same situation?
