Minimal physicalism as a scale-free substrate for cognition and consciousness
Neuroscience of Consciousness May 1, 2021 C. Fields, J. Glazebrook, Michael Levin
Abstract Theories of consciousness and cognition that assume a neural substrate automatically regard phylogenetically basal, nonneural systems as nonconscious and noncognitive. Here, we advance a scale-free characterization of consciousness and cognition that regards basal systems, including synthetic constructs, as not only informative about the structure and function of experience in more...