Inferring Consciousness in Phylogenetically Distant Organisms
Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience July 1, 2024 Peter Godfrey-Smith
Abstract The neural dynamics of subjectivity (NDS) approach to the biological explanation of consciousness is outlined and applied to the problem of inferring consciousness in animals phylogenetically distant from ourselves. The NDS approach holds that consciousness or felt experience is characteristic of systems whose nervous systems have been shaped to realize subjectivity through a...