#animal-consciousness

#animal-consciousness

In my previous post, I summarized my response to Christian de Weerd, who denied that a Darwinian approach to consciousness is even possible. I argued that consciousness science has unnecessarily insulated itself from the evolutionary tools that revolutionized our understanding of every other biological phenomenon, and that treating human consciousness as the paradigm case distorts our picture of consciousness as a natural phenomenon spanning millions of species across millions of years.

"Proper names probably not," writes Anne Carson in 'Red Doc>.' "Do they even have pronouns? Do they experience the entire cold sorrow acre of human history..."

Our article contributes to the emerging field of animal consciousness by emphasizing what corvids experience rather than just assessing their intelligence, exploring dimensions of their conscious experience.