ArticleFrontiers in systems neuroscience2020
Renewed Perspectives on the Deep Roots and Broad Distribution of Animal Consciousness.
Article in Frontiers in systems neuroscience, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 11 papers.
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- Towards a neuroethological approach to consciousness.Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences · 2025Review
- Evolutionary Trajectories of Consciousness: From Biological Foundations to Technological Horizons.Brain sciences · 2025Review
- The Sixth Mass Extinction and Amphibian Species Sustainability Through Reproduction and Advanced Biotechnologies, Biobanking of Germplasm and Somatic Cells, and Conservation Breeding Programs (RBCs).Animals : an open access journal from MDPI · 2024Review
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- Symbolic representation by a two-dimensional matrix for profiling comparative animal behavior.Frontiers in psychology · 2024Article
- The function(s) of consciousness: an evolutionary perspective.Frontiers in psychology · 2024Article
- Mental causation: an evolutionary perspective.Frontiers in psychology · 2024Article
- Consciousness and its hard problems: separating the ontological from the evolutionary.Frontiers in psychology · 2023Article
- Editorial: Comparative animal consciousness.Frontiers in systems neuroscience · 2022Article
- Awareness and consciousness in humans and animals - neural and behavioral correlates in an evolutionary perspective.Frontiers in systems neuroscience · 2022Article
- Experience-Specific Dimensions of Consciousness (Observable in Flexible and Spontaneous Action Planning Among Animals).Frontiers in systems neuroscience · 2021Article
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Abstract
The vast majority of neurobiologists have long abandoned the Cartesian view of non-human animals as unconscious automatons-acknowledging instead the high likelihood that mammals and birds have mental experiences akin to subjective consciousness. Several lines of evidence are now extending those limits to all vertebrates and even some invertebrates, though graded in degrees as argued originally by Darwin, correlated with the complexity of the animal's brain. A principal argument for this view is that the function of consciousness is to promote the survival of an animal-especially one actively moving about-in the face of dynamic changes and real-time contingencies. Cognitive ecologists point to the unique features of each animal's environment and the specific behavioral capabilities that different environments invoke, thereby suggesting that consciousness must take on a great variety of forms, many of which differ substantially from human subjective experience.
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