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Tonic immobility and phenomenal consciousness in animals: a review [PDF]

Frontiers in Psychology
Michael L Woodruff
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Phenomenal Consciousness; a Challenge to Physicalism [PDF]

Journal of Philosophical Investigations, 2021
The undeniable success of neuroscience in explaining human mental states, which in the past were explained in terms of supernatural concepts, has led many modern-day scientists and philosophers to advocate physicalist methods in explaining human nature ...
Samad Hosseini, Abbas Yazdani
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Reorganization of the connectivity between elementary functions as a common mechanism of phenomenal consciousness and working memory: from functions to strategies [PDF]

Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 2018
Morten Overgaard, Jesper Mogensen
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Sentience, Vulcans, and zombies: the value of phenomenal consciousness [PDF]

AI and Society
Joshua Shepherd
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A Relativistic Theory of Consciousness

Frontiers in Psychology, 2022
In recent decades, the scientific study of consciousness has significantly increased our understanding of this elusive phenomenon. Yet, despite critical development in our understanding of the functional side of consciousness, we still lack a fundamental
Nir Lahav, Zachariah A. Neemeh, Zachariah A. Neemeh   +2 more
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It might not matter very much whether insects are conscious

Animal Sentience, 2020
In common with most other authors, Mikhalevich & Powell assume that phenomenal consciousness is a “precondition” of moral standing. Although the evidence they present makes it much more likely than usually thought that arthropods are phenomenally ...
Neil Levy
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Representationalism, skepticism and phenomenal realism

Prometeica, 2022
The irreducibility thesis of phenomenal consciousness can only succeed against the sceptical attack and avoid solipsism iff it can coherently establish the transition from subjective certainty to the objectivity of knowledge. The sceptical attack on the
Manas Kumar Sahu
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Re-evaluating the structure of consciousness through the symintentry hypothesis

Frontiers in Psychology, 2023
The Projective Consciousness Model and its extension to the phenomenal selfhood model are the generic invariant structures of consciousness through five symmetries.
David Rail, Andrew Selby, Andrew Selby
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Mental representations are not necessary for fish consciousness

Animal Sentience, 2017
Woodruff (2017) argues that teleost fishes are capable of phenomenal consciousness. Central to his argument is the assumption that phenomenal consciousness is representational in nature.
Luis H. Favela
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From Shorter to Longer Timescales: Converging Integrated Information Theory (IIT) with the Temporo-Spatial Theory of Consciousness (TTC)

Entropy, 2022
Time is a key element of consciousness as it includes multiple timescales from shorter to longer ones. This is reflected in our experience of various short-term phenomenal contents at discrete points in time as part of an ongoing, more continuous, and ...
Georg Northoff, Federico Zilio
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