Kristin Andrews,Noam Miller
Kristin Andrews
We present the social origins of consciousness hypothesis, according to which the ability to coordinate with group members was the original adaptive function of consciousness. We offer three arguments. The phylogenetic argument presumes tha...
What the functions of consciousness are depends on what one thinks consciousness is [0.03%]
意识的功能取决于你认为意识是什么
Joseph E LeDoux
Joseph E LeDoux
The word 'consciousness' is often used as if it is a single thing, and as if everyone knows, in a general sense, what that thing is. The very notion of a theory of consciousness implies that someday this thing will be accounted for. But sup...
On the mirror test and the evolutionary origin of self-awareness in vertebrates [0.03%]
有关镜子试验与脊椎动物自我意识的进化起源
Masanori Kohda,Shumpei Sogawa,Redouan Bshary
Masanori Kohda
Self-awareness in animals is often documented by showing evidence for mirror self-recognition (MSR), which is confirmed by the mirror mark-test. The classic assumption about self-awareness was that it is a complex cognitive process, restric...
Colin Klein,Andrew B Barron
Colin Klein
An increasing number of authors are willing to attribute phenomenal consciousness to relatively simple organisms like insects. Yet it is not at all clear what functional role the substrates of consciousness would play. Here, we argue phenom...
Lars Chittka,Sarah Skeels,Olga Dyakova et al.
Lars Chittka et al.
Consciousness is a state of subjective experience or awareness, e.g. of an emotion, the self or external objects. In humans, this awareness is underpinned by a suite of cognitive functions, from attention to metacognition. To understand the...
Consciousness at sea [0.03%]
海上意识
Irina Mikhalevich
Irina Mikhalevich
This essay articulates three distinct but interrelated challenges facing evolutionary explanations of consciousness. These are: (i) lingering misconceptions about evolutionary explanations that stem from evolutionary progressivism and adapt...
Léa Moncoucy,Krzysztof Dołęga,Catherine Tallon-Baudry et al.
Léa Moncoucy et al.
DC. Dennett (2020,personal communication) asked: 'How do we go from doing things for reasons to having reasons for doing things?'. This question targets a fundamental shift in nature: while all organisms act in the way they do for reasons t...
Three types of phenomenal consciousness and their functional roles: unfolding the ALARM theory of consciousness [0.03%]
一种现象意识的三种类型及其功能作用：展开对意识的ALARM理论解释
Albert Newen,Carlos Montemayor
Albert Newen
The evolution of consciousness is a neglected topic that plays a surprisingly insignificant role in all major theories of consciousness. Furthermore, substantial disagreements can be observed in the dominant views on the neural correlates o...
W Tecumseh Fitch,Colin Allen,Adina L Roskies
W Tecumseh Fitch
Why did consciousness evolve? Assuming that some species (e.g. humans) have consciousness and others (e.g. redwoods or mushrooms) do not, what problem(s) did consciousness evolve to solve? From a biological and evolutionary viewpoint, and r...
Consciousness: its goals, its functions and the emergence of a new category of selection [0.03%]
意识：它的目标、功能以及新的选择范畴的出现
Eva Jablonka,Simona Ginsburg
Eva Jablonka
We suggest that the emergence of consciousness in living organisms entailed new goals and new functions, which gave rise to a new category of selection, which we call mental selection. Mental selection involves ontogenetic choices that are ...