How do I draw my circle? I just spend time with the various species and decide if they feel like they are in my circle or not. I’ve raised chickens and somehow haven’t felt empathy toward them. They are little more than feathery servo-controlled mechanisms compared to goats, for instance, which I have also raised, and will not eat. On the other hand, a colleague of mine, virtual reality researcher Adrian Cheok, feels such empathy with chickens that he built teleimmersion suits for them so that he could telecuddle them from work.
