Editorial: Comparative animal consciousness.
Louis N Irwin, Lars Chittka, Eva Jablonka, Jon Mallatt
Front Syst Neurosci October 19, 2022 DOI: 10.3389/fnsys.2022.998421 (opens in new tab)
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AI-extracted from the abstract| Characteristics | Review Peer reviewed |
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| Citations | 11 |
| Key findings | Consciousness in animals is defined as perceptual and affective experience arising from a nervous system, and the collection takes a biological and evolutionary approach to understanding it. |
Abstract
The scientific study of consciousness has seen a resurgence in the 21st century. This collection of reviews, essays, and theories on various aspects of comparative animal consciousness takes a biological and evolutionary approach. As defined here, consciousness refers to the process by which an animal has perceptual and affective experience or feelings, arising from the material substrate of a nervous system. It draws upon a long tradition of neuroscientific materialism (Jackson,