COMPUTATIONAL ANIMAL WELFARE: TOWARDS COGNITIVE ARCHITECTURE MODELS OF ANIMAL SENTIENCE, EMOTION AND WELLBEING

Computational animal welfare: towards cognitive architecture models of animal sentience, emotion and wellbeing

To understand animal wellbeing, we need to consider subjective phenomena and sentience.This is challenging, since these properties are private and cannot be observed directly.Certain motivations, emotions and related internal states can be inferred in animals through experiments that involve choice, learning, generalization and decision-making.Yet,

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