“The absence of a neocortex does not appear to preclude an organism from experiencing affective states. Convergent evidence indicates that non-human animals have the neuroanatomical, neurochemical, and neurophysiological substrates of conscious states along with the capacity to exhibit intentional behaviors. Consequently, the weight of evidence indicates that humans are not unique in possessing the neurological substrates that generate consciousness. Non-human animals, including all mammals and birds, and many other creatures, including octopuses, also possess these neurological substrates.”

-Cambridge Declaration on Consciousness

MEDIA APPEARANCES

“Defining Hierarchy” video presentation for Animals and Society Institute. August 13, 2019. https://www.animalsandsociety.org/human-animal-studies/defining-human-animal-studies-an-asi-video-project/defining-hierarchy-with-alex-parrish/

“Animal Intersections: Nonhuman Persons” interview on NPR program With Good Reason. April 29, 2017. http://withgoodreasonradio.org/episode/animal-intersections/?t=00:09:20

INVITED TALKS AND WORKSHOP LEADERSHIP

“Animal Rhetorics” workshop. Rhetoric Society of America Summer Institute. Indiana University. May 21-27, 2017.

“Formulating a Cross-Species Theory of Rhetoric.” Cohen Center for Technological Humanism. James Madison University. October 24, 2016.