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So--- Is a conscience merely a behavioural construct? Would it differ in different cultural environments?

Perhaps the conscience is an indication of refined guilt.

Has an animal (other than human) been recorded as having a developed conscience? A chimp perhaps? I ask because rede refers to a "certain kind of animal". Is it only the human kind? Does it define us as "human"?