AnimalConsciousness
Cambridge Declartation
sniff test of self recognition:
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/03949370.2015.1102777?journalCode=teee20
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-019-1352-7
– Minimal Selfhood and the Origins of Consciousness by Rupert Glasgow, and discussions with the Author :
You can download the book for free here:
http://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:bvb:20-opus-157470
– Consciousness allows us to be aware of our surroundings and of our own inner state.
https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/consciousness/#ConCon
– Our consciousness is likely to have evolved from less complex forms, as a product of evolution.
#Minimal Selfhood and the Origins of Consciousness, 2018
http://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:bvb:20-opus-157470
#The Physical Evolution of Consciousness, 2018
https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/finding-purpose/201807/the-physical-evolution-consciousness
#A Universal Definition of Life: Autonomy and Open-Ended Evolution, 2004 [2002]
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1023/B:ORIG.0000016440.53346.dc
– The original function of consciousness was probably to direct a mobile self that was short of energy to a fresh supply of food.
#Evolution of consciousness: Phylogeny, ontogeny, and emergence from general anesthesia, 2018
https://www.pnas.org/content/110/Supplement_2/10357#ref-52
– Trichoplax adhaerens moves around haphazardly.
#Coordinated Feeding Behavior in Trichoplax, an Animal without Synapses, 2015
https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0136098
#Eyes on the prize: the evolution of vision, 2016
http://www.nhm.ac.uk/discover/eyes-on-the-prize-evolution-of-vision.html
– The ability to remember things has emerged.
#Decisions and the Evolution of Memory: Multiple Systems, Multiple Functions, 2002
https://philpapers.org/archive/KLEP-8.pdf
#The Evolution of Memory Systems: Ancestors, Anatomy, and Adaptations, 2016
https://books.google.de/books?id=7XB4DQAAQBAJ&pg=PT27&lpg=PT27&dq=memory+evolution&source=bl&ots=wFkQI-PU3D&sig=ACfU3U0VSS9VxVZM988iXgv0j76JIFGAdA&hl=de&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwi3-tq0hZPgAhVKKlAKHVizDzg4ChDoATADegQIBhAB#v=onepage&q=memory%20evolution&f=false
– A sense of time is a big step on the ladder of consciousness.
#Temporal Consciousness, 2010
https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/consciousness-temporal/#TimCon