The Accretive View of Consciousness: Phenomenal Gradation in Ontogeny and Phylogeny
Otto Lehto, Liam Ryan preprint
The problem of other minds takes an especially acute form in thorny comparative cases, when we ask whether an infant is more, less, or differently conscious than an adult, or whether an octopus is more, less, or differently conscious than a dog. These judgments must be made in the absence of a settled theory of consciousness while navigating significant empirical uncertainties. For all these...