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Review
. 2021 Nov 22;43(4):121.
doi: 10.1007/s40656-021-00472-w.

The hatching of consciousness

Jonathan Birch  1
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Review

The hatching of consciousness

Jonathan Birch. Hist Philos Life Sci. .

Abstract

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.

Keywords: Consciousness; Emotion; Evolution; Phenomenal consciousness; Sentience; Subjective experience.

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Sea angels. Rafael Guri / CC-BY-SA 3.0
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A common seadragon (Phyllopteryx taeniolatus). Richard Ling / CC-BY-SA 3.0
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