The value of consciousness: experiences worth having.
Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences November 13, 2025 Léa Moncoucy, Krzysztof Dołęga, Catherine Tallon-Baudry et al. 5 citations
DC. Dennett (2020,personal communication) asked: 'How do we go from doing things for reasons to having reasons for doing things?'. This question targets a fundamental shift in nature: while all organisms act in the way they do for reasons that are shaped by extrinsic evolutionary cost functions, some also act for reasons of their own, even engaging in behaviour that may be detrimental to their...