An Enquiry into the Links Between Episodic Memory and Empathy in Non-Human Animals

对非人类动物情景记忆和同理心之间联系的调查

• 批准号: 2887760
• 金额: --
• 依托单位: University of Manchester
• 依托单位国家: 英国
• 项目类别: Studentship
• 财政年份: 2023
• 资助国家: 英国
• 起止时间: 2023 至 无数据
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=studentship-2887760
• 关键词: Enquiry; into; Links; Between; Episodic

For the last century, research into animal consciousness has adhered to Morgan's Canon, which guides researchers in favouring simple explanations of animal minds over complex ones, but due to it being rooted in empirically unjustified theoretical assumptions about physical reductionism and simplicity, contemporary research has become intellectually stagnated as a result. Left unchecked it will remain so. My research aim is to argue for the adoption of my Minimum Harm Principle as an alternative, which requires that researchers be conscientious when evaluating competing explanations that if they conclude incorrectly, they cannot take back the consequences that their conclusions will have for animals that are consciously aware of their suffering, have the capacity to vividly recall suffering, and the capacity to share in the suffering of others. My PhD project is divided into two sections: the first currently underway is to critique and offer a new alternative to Morgan's Canon, and the second is to evidence how this alternative principle can be used to make progress in researching the conscious aspects of Episodic Memory and Empathy in animals, which the upcoming two years of my PhD will investigate.

上个世纪，对动物意识的研究一直遵循摩根的经典，该经典指导研究人员倾向于对动物心理的简单解释，而不是复杂的解释，但由于它植根于关于物理简约论和简单性的经验上不合理的理论假设，当代研究因此在智力上停滞不前。如果不加以控制，它将保持不变。我的研究目的是主张采用我的最小伤害原则作为替代原则，该原则要求研究人员在评估相互矛盾的解释时要认真负责，如果他们得出的结论不正确，他们就不能收回他们的结论对那些有意识地意识到自己的痛苦、有能力生动地回忆痛苦、有能力分担他人的痛苦的动物所产生的后果。我的博士项目分为两个部分：第一个部分目前正在进行中，旨在对摩根的经典著作进行评论并提供一种新的替代方案，第二个部分是证明如何使用这个替代原理来研究动物的情景记忆和同理心的有意识方面的进展，我的博士学位将在接下来的两年里进行研究。