My teenager proposed the idea of spirituality in animals to me just the other day. It never occurred to me to even consider the thought. All the time, we find t

My teenager proposed the idea of spirituality in animals to me just the other day. It never occurred to me to even consider the thought. All the time, we find there is less and less human exceptionalism. I'm more and more convinced that we need to find evidence that animals are explicitly non-human in a given aspect as opposed to the alternative. We've gone from believing physical is pain not experienced by animals to realizing that rats mourn the loss of a mate. Why do we think only humans can have spiritual experiences? My proposed experiment: scan animals for delta brain waves. We see those in humans during meditation and can apparently force delta waves whereby patients report spiritual feelings.