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ArticlePhilosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences2025

The value of consciousness: experiences worth having.

Léa Moncoucy, Krzysztof Dołęga, Catherine Tallon-Baudry, Axel Cleeremans

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Article in Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 2 papers.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

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Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

2 citing papers in PubMed.

  1. The exploration of consciousness in insects.Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences · 2025
    Review
  2. The evolutionary functions of consciousness.Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences · 2025
    Article
4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

4 authors.

Léa Moncoucy *Center for Research in Cognition and Neuroscience, Université Libre de Bruxelles Faculté des Sciences psychologiques et de l'éducation, Bruxelles, Belgium.
Krzysztof Dołęga *Center for Research in Cognition and Neuroscience, Université Libre de Bruxelles Faculté des Sciences psychologiques et de l'éducation, Bruxelles, Belgium.
Catherine Tallon-BaudryINSERM-ENS, Cognitive Neuroscience Laboratory, Paris, France.
Axel CleeremansCenter for Research in Cognition and Neuroscience, Université Libre de Bruxelles Faculté des Sciences psychologiques et de l'éducation, Bruxelles, Belgium.ORCID 0000-0002-9757-5235

Funding

H2020 European Research Council
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

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 own existence. For such organisms, we argue, phenomenal experience-what it feels like-has intrinsic value. Here, we elaborate on the perspective developed by Axel Cleeremans and Catherine Tallon-Baudry (Cleeremans, Tallon-Baudry 2022

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Biological EvolutionConsciousnessHumansadaptive signallingevolutionintrinsic valuephenomenal consciousnesssubjective experience

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PMID41229295
PMCPMC12612692

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