Nicholas Humphrey on Sentience: The Invention of Consciousness
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Is Consciousness a Step Function Event?
I want to keep focusing on the evolutionary part which you're saying that it can be a step function event because of what it was needed to create that. And this is very original and very iconoclastic. Well including my great friend Dan Dennett who we really can't agree about this. He has always said that consciousness comes in every possible grade. I mean from Hemi Demi's semi-consciousness right the way up to the conscious experience which we have phenomenal consciousness, he says. It's not that he's measured it or that he's observed it in animals or anything else. It's simply that he thinks it must be so because nature aballs discontinuities in the
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