The hatching of consciousness.
History and philosophy of the life sciences November 22, 2021 Peer reviewed DOI: 10.1007/s40656-021-00472-w via PubMed
Summary
Peter Godfrey-Smith's Metazoa and Joseph LeDoux's The Deep History of Ourselves offer contrasting perspectives on the nature, evolution, and distribution of consciousness in animals. This essay review examines the motivations for these differing viewpoints and attempts to find a middle ground between them.
Abstract
Peter Godfrey-Smith's Metazoa and Joseph LeDoux's The Deep History of Ourselves present radically different big pictures regarding the nature, evolution and distribution of consciousness in animals. In this essay review, I discuss the motivations behind these big pictures and try to steer a course between them.