2 papers in the library · 32 citations · publishing 2025
Science (New York, N.Y.) February 21, 2025 Kristin Andrews, Jonathan Birch, Jeff Sebo 29 citations
A growing scientific field demonstrates that animal feelings can be investigated using rigorous methods, challenging the long-held view that subjective experiences in non-human animals are beyond scientific reach.
Philos Trans R Soc Lond B Biol Sci November 13, 2025 Kristin Andrews, Noam Miller 3 citations
The social origins of consciousness hypothesis proposes that the original adaptive function of consciousness was to enable coordination with group members. Three arguments support this: a phylogenetic argument that consciousness is widespread among animals and likely evolved early to solve the problem of predicting others' behavior and staying together as a group during the Cambrian; a neuroscience argument that even simple brains have capacities for social rewards and pains, with modern brains retaining close connections between social cognition and affect; and an argument from deep adaptive alignment between social pain and harm to animals, building on William James (1890).