No proof for subjective experience in insects
Animal Sentience August 19, 2016 Holk Cruse, Malte Schilling
This commentary extends Klein and Barron's comparison of human and insect cognition to robots, raising two objections. One objection concerns the epistemological problem of subjective experience, questioning whether robots can possess it. The other objection challenges whether insects require integrated spatiotemporal modeling for navigation, suggesting simpler mechanisms may suffice. The authors argue that these points undermine the claim that insects and robots share functionally equivalent cognitive processes.