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Charles Darwin's ideas that animals are conscious in the same way humans are have long been shunned.
Attributing consciousness to animals based on their responses was seen as a cardinal sin.
Now, many want a change in scientific thinking in the field.
Many say that it is now time to think again, with the emergence of new evidence they say marks a "sea change" in thinking.
Some say far more animals need to be studied for possibility of consciousness than is currently the case.
The New York Declaration on Animal Consciousness signed earlier this year has so far been signed by 286 researchers.
Others who have been instinctively sceptical of the idea of animals being conscious say that the new interpretation of what it means to be conscious makes a difference.
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