ArticleProceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America2016
Insects cannot tell us anything about subjective experience or the origin of consciousness.
Article in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 2016. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 6 papers.
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6 citing papers in PubMed.
- Social information about others' affective states in a human-altered world.The Journal of animal ecology · 2026Review
- Attention: a descriptive taxonomy.History and philosophy of the life sciences · 2022Article
- The search for invertebrate consciousness.Nous (Detroit, Mich.) · 2022Article
- Neural Design Principles for Subjective Experience: Implications for Insects.Frontiers in behavioral neuroscience · 2021Article
- Insect Consciousness.Frontiers in behavioral neuroscience · 2021Article
- Reply to Adamo, Key et al., and Schilling and Cruse: Crawling around the hard problem of consciousness.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2016Article
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