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Peter Godfrey-Smith

Metazoa

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  • Jan Noцитирует4 года назад
    In some cases, the everyday life of a split-brain patient shows signs of ongoing disunity, as evidenced by disagreement; there are cases where one hand will put on a shirt or get out a cigarette, for example, and the other hand will oppose this action. If that sort of behavior was common, it would be tempting to say that the two-minds condition was permanent (as Schechter thinks it is).
  • Jan Noцитирует4 года назад
    But there is a lot of it, from sea angels (perhaps) to sea dragons (for sure).
  • Jan Noцитирует4 года назад
    Still, I’d bet on a view in which definite sentience exists not just in vertebrates, but in some groups very distant from our own: at least in cephalopods and some arthropods.
  • Jan Noцитирует4 года назад
    A second possibility is that a primordial form of experience arose just once, longer ago, early in animal evolution.
  • Jan Noцитирует4 года назад
    Sentience arose in animals from its absence, in this view, and did so at least a handful of times.
  • Jan Noцитирует4 года назад
    but a lot of other invertebrates (corals, bryozoans) just do not have what it takes.
  • Jan Noцитирует4 года назад
    although precursors to experience exist in much of the animal part of the tree, felt experience arose several times in different evolutionary lines.
  • Jan Noцитирует4 года назад
    Going back and forth over these questions, I’ve come to a sense of the importance of nervous systems, and—again—the unique way they organize nature’s energies.
  • Jan Noцитирует4 года назад
    However, I think this is a mistake.
  • Jan Noцитирует4 года назад
    a path not to panpsychism, but to what can be called biopsychism, the idea that all life is sentient.
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