Insects cannot tell us anything about subjective experience or the origin of consciousness

Affiliations

¹ School of Biomedical Sciences, University of Queensland, Brisbane, QLD 4072, Australia; brian.key@uq.edu.au.
² Department of Biology and Ecology of Fishes, Leibniz Institute of Freshwater Ecology and Inland Fisheries & Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Berlin 10155, Germany;
³ Institute of Marine Research, Storebo 5392, Norway.

Comment

Brian Key et al. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2016.

. 2016 Jul 5;113(27):E3813.

doi: 10.1073/pnas.1606835113. Epub 2016 Jun 28.

¹ School of Biomedical Sciences, University of Queensland, Brisbane, QLD 4072, Australia; brian.key@uq.edu.au.
² Department of Biology and Ecology of Fishes, Leibniz Institute of Freshwater Ecology and Inland Fisheries & Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Berlin 10155, Germany;
³ Institute of Marine Research, Storebo 5392, Norway.

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Conflict of interest statement

The authors declare no conflict of interest.

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