Amiable, lucid, and concise, it argues that at least some animals dream in the way that people do—a view most pet owners will second—and that this in itself gives them “moral status” as entities who, like people, cannot be treated as a means to an end. The latter argument is trickier, but even getting to the first one obliges Peña-Guzmán to make some speculative leaps.
Strangely, while Peña-Guzmán assembles an assortment of studies suggesting the extent of animal dreaming,animals do it.
When it’s a “frontier” to behave morally and ethically toward nonhumans, you can tell we are indeed a toddler species.
Everyone dreams Everyone is conscious Humans are not supreme