The first minds : caterpillars, 'karyotes, and consciousness / Arthur S. Reber.
"First Minds: Caterpillars, 'Karyotes, and Consciousness presents a novel theory of the origins of mind and consciousness dubbed the Cellular Basis of Consciousness (CBC). It argues that sentience emerged with life itself. The most primitive unicellular species of bacteria are conscious, t...
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New York, NY :
Oxford University Press,
[2019]
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Table of Contents:
- Preface
- Can robots be conscious?
- Why has a cellular basis of consciousness-type model not been proposed before?
- Bio-centric views of the origin of consciousness : the search for the solution to the hard problem
- Where we get serious : the cellular basis of consciousness
- Entailments of the cellular basis of consciousness stance
- Appendix A: An exercise in lexicography : defining(?) consciousness
- Appendix B: Commentary on the Cambridge Declaration on Consciousness
- References
- Index.