All right, I'm kind of flip-flopping here. I'm back to my original "animal cognition" topic.
It's worth noting that a lot of these "ideas" I've been reporting on my blog posts are not mine, but are, in fact, the professor's. When I initially proposed the animal cognition topic, he made me aware that I phrased it too broadly and made the research look as though it would have been too reliant on philosophy. So, I switched to an "easy" topic (animal testing). But then, after my conference with her, she suggested I return to my original topic, with a few revisions.
I may still frame my argument within the context of animal testing, but it will probably be a smaller subsection of the research paper instead of the main argument. Previously, I was going to argue something along the lines of "If animals have cognition to this degree, then we should be treating them in this way..." but now I will be doing a more straightforward research paper on animal cognition and consciousness in general. Now that I think about it, a good spot to mention animal testing might be where I'll mention the pain experience in animals.
I've got my second research proposal due this Thursday, and next week is spring break. I'm pretty sure (or at least, I hope) that I'm not going to have a whole lot of homework over break, so this should give me plenty of time to do lots and lots of research. Hopefully I can work up the willpower to actually be productive over break.
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