I'm responding to 'what is the implication' in the suggestion that people would otherwise have accepted animals as conscious centuries ago, if not for 'the impl

I'm responding to 'what is the implication' in the suggestion that people would otherwise have accepted animals as conscious centuries ago, if not for 'the implication'. My read of those parts of the conversation is that they have nothing to do with religion, and so I'm not responding to any religious element of the thread.