ArticleFrontiers in psychology2016
The Transition to Minimal Consciousness through the Evolution of Associative Learning.
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Abstract
The minimal state of consciousness is sentience. This includes any phenomenal sensory experience - exteroceptive, such as vision and olfaction; interoceptive, such as pain and hunger; or proprioceptive, such as the sense of bodily position and movement. We propose
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