Animal consciousness

* There is an emerging consensus that current evidence supports attributing some form of consciousness to other mammals, birds, and at least some cephalopod molluscs (octopuses, squid, cuttlefish).
* If we try to make sense of variation across the animal kingdom using a single sliding scale, ranking species as ‘more conscious’ or ‘less conscious’ than others, we will inevitably neglect important dimensions of variation.
* There is a need for a multidimensional framework that allows the conscious states of animals to vary continuously along many different dimensions, so that a species has its own distinctive consciousness profile.
https://www.cell.com/trends/cognitive-sciences/fulltext/S1364-6613(20)30192-3#.Xz-mXIjPfy8.twitter
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Category:Animals
Category:Psychology