The author of 'Complexity and the Evolution of Consciousness' suggests that 'Benthamite creatures' is a more appropriate term than 'Skinnerian creatures' (a term used by Daniel Dennett in 1995) for describing organisms capable of reinforcement learning, as it avoids externalist modes of thinking about the transition to animal agency.

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  Complexity and the Evolution of Consciousness | Biological Theory

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