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Panpsychism - Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy plato.stanford.edu Jul 18, 2017 4 facts
claimConstitutive micropsychism posits that micro-level entities possess basic forms of conscious experience, which combine in brains to constitute human and animal consciousness.
claimPanpsychism could be supported if it provides the best explanation for the existence of human and animal consciousness or if it serves as the most parsimonious theory of the intrinsic nature of matter.
claimConstitutive panpsychism is the view that facts about human and animal consciousness are not fundamental, but are grounded in, realized by, or constituted of facts about more fundamental, micro-level consciousness.
claimNon-constitutive panpsychism is the view that facts about human and animal consciousness are among the fundamental facts of the universe, rather than being grounded in micro-level consciousness.
The function(s) of consciousness: an evolutionary perspective frontiersin.org Nov 25, 2024 3 facts
referenceBirch, Schnell, and Clayton (2020) published 'Dimensions of animal consciousness' in Trends in Cognitive Sciences.
referenceAllen and Trestman (2020) authored 'Animal consciousness' in The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy.
referenceD. R. Griffen and G. B. Speck published 'New evidence of animal consciousness' in Animal Cognition in 2004.
Complexity and the Evolution of Consciousness | Biological Theory link.springer.com Sep 14, 2022 3 facts
claimThe study of animal consciousness remains a controversial topic in scientific research.
referenceJonathan Birch, D.M. Broom, H. Browning, A. Crump, S. Ginsburg, M. Halina, and others published a paper in 2022 titled 'How should we study animal consciousness scientifically?'
claimThe 'pathological complexity thesis' is a hypothesis regarding the evolutionary origins of minimal consciousness, or sentience, which connects the study of animal consciousness with behavioral ecology and evolutionary biology.
Panpsychism (Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy/Fall 2025 Edition) plato.stanford.edu May 23, 2001 2 facts
claimEmergentists avoid some forms of the combination problem by treating human and animal consciousness as fundamental rather than composed of more basic forms of consciousness.
claimPhysicalism is a philosophical view that offers a unified vision of the world but faces difficulty in providing a satisfactory account of how human and animal consciousness emerges.
Global workspace theory: consciousness as brain wide information ... selfawarepatterns.com Dec 29, 2019 1 fact
claimPeter Carruthers, having transitioned from a higher-order theory to Global Workspace Theory, maintains that there is no definitive fact of the matter regarding animal consciousness.
Non-physicalist Theories of Consciousness cambridge.org Dec 20, 2023 1 fact
claimComplex consciousness, such as human and animal consciousness, is theorized to result from fundamental consciousness or protoconsciousness being combined in the correct manner.