The hatching of consciousness

Birch, Jonathan ORCID: 0000-0001-7517-4759 (2021) The hatching of consciousness. History and Philosophy of the Life Sciences, 43 (4). ISSN 0391-9714

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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.

Item Type:	Article
Official URL:	https://www.springer.com/journal/40656
Additional Information:	© 2021 The Author
Divisions:	Philosophy, Logic and Scientific Method
Subjects:	B Philosophy. Psychology. Religion > B Philosophy (General)
Date Deposited:	29 Oct 2021 15:09
Last Modified:	09 Nov 2024 06:00
URI:	http://eprints.lse.ac.uk/id/eprint/112533

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