Consciousness research is research about the subjective quality of experience.
Further reading
Animal Ethics (2017) Animal sentience, Animal Ethics.
External links
Rethink Priorities’ publications. Many articles on this topic under the headings ‘Capacity for welfare & moral status’ and ‘Invertebrate welfare’.
Related entries
axiology | philosophy of mind | Qualia Research Institute | valence
I think this should probably be merged with the sentience & consciousness tag.
Edited to add: Oh, scratch that—I’ve just seen this comment thread and expressed my new views there, so that supersedes this.
Also, on the tag portal, this is listed as “Consciousness” rather than “consciousness research”.