Veit, Walter
(2022)
Towards a Comparative Study of Animal Consciousness (Preprint).
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Abstract
In order to develop a true biological science of consciousness, we have to remove humans from the centre of reference and develop a bottom-up comparative study of animal minds as Donald Griffin intended with his call for a ‘cognitive ethology’. In this article, I make use of the pathological complexity thesis (Veit 2022a,c,b) to show that we can firmly ground a comparative study of animal consciousness by drawing on the resources of state-based behavioral life-history theory. By comparing the different life histories of gastropods and arthropods, we will be able to make better sense of the possible origins of consciousness and its function for organisms in their natural environments.
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