The hatching of consciousness
Birch, Jonathan
(2021)
The hatching of consciousness
History and Philosophy of the Life Sciences, 43 (4): 121.
ISSN 0391-9714
Peter Godfrey-Smith's Metazoa and Joseph LeDoux's The Deep History of Ourselves present radically different big pictures regarding the nature, evolution and distribution of consciousness in animals. In this essay review, I discuss the motivations behind these big pictures and try to steer a course between them.
| Item Type | Article |
|---|---|
| Keywords | evoloution,consciousness,subjective experience,phenomenal consciousness,sentience,emotion |
| Departments | Philosophy, Logic and Scientific Method |
| DOI | 10.1007/s40656-021-00472-w |
| Date Deposited | 29 Oct 2021 15:09 |
| URI | https://researchonline.lse.ac.uk/id/eprint/112533 |
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ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7517-4759
