Which creatures are conscious, from octopuses and insects to plants.
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Episodes where it comes up most
Monica Gagliano
- 12:17 “…lab they deal with it in different ways you know the sacrificing of the animal you're and the weirdest thing especially with the rats is that you have to go and handle them…”
- 44:39 “…simple you know the better the bones of experiment is okay so can the plants do this as well so can the plants learn to associate something that is totally meaningless…”
John Kubie
- 44:24 “…rapid trains of action potentials and you see the sharp waves when the animal pauses and rears and you can if you're very careful record the trains of action potentials…”
- 51:38 “…from above and put a video cam a tiny little video camera mounted on the animal's head and use calcium imaging to see which cells are available spikes in calcium now calcium…”
Henry Shevlin
- 1:12:07 “…few people working on it and um i mean you and i are both you know into animal rights uh i think um the fact that we have not had a conservative scientific philosophical…”
- 1:44:41 “…know i'm a vegetarian uh and you know we both care passionately about animal welfare um but i think the one sort of argument against vegetarianism i've heard i'm curious…”
Consciousness Live! 100th Episode Spectacular Extravaganza -Session 3
- 55:16 “…that you could do these kinds of tasks unconsciously. So, now here's an animal that can't report. In a human, you can get them to report, so you could say, "Aha, here's…”
- 24:29 “…a so that tend to correlate with consciousness and let's look at what animals that we typically think of as being conscious animals, what kind of psychological functions…”
Bryce Huebner
- 1:10:24 “better handle on asking the questions about animal pain yeah I mean I guess my worry is that if you if you take the other seriously which I mean…”
- 1:16:09 “…done completely without there being any something that it's like from the bees point of view it could be going on in the dark without experience and the behavior would not…”
Matthias Michel
- 1:48:50 “…we've already been talking for too long we haven't even got to talk about fish at all which I was wrong no you can talk about fit said that and some of these”
- 2:00:28 “…that multiple realization something that really differentiates but in in fish the problem is that we don't find yet we haven't found yet the kind of analogues to the cortex…”
Victor Caston
- 48:11 “well if that's true of all animals who have perception he thinks that perception is what defines animals it distinguishes animals…”
- 1:01:31 “…seven chapter three in particular but also in his essay on the motion of animals right in chapter seven at much greater length um it looks like he's explaining action as resulting…”
Geoffrey Lee
- 1:22:10 “…the perspective of the zombie martian scientist then you look at this fish and you look at us and it's not really that different it's just like they've got a thing that…”
- 1:34:17 “…i mean you don't even need aliens i mean you just think about ants or bees or trees even i'm not sure what your views about trees are but um plants are pretty cognitively…”
Mark Solms
- 27:49 “…the common sense point of view it's beyond question that uh non-human animals are conscious and experience things like common sense has settled that issue all the same”
- 48:57 “the starting point is that you can remove the entire cortex and the animal still behaves as if it were conscious in other words it still it still wakes up in the morning…”
Claudia Passos-Ferreira
- 21:08 “…think nowadays were much more concerned about paying in infants paying animals with much more concerning and bad thing than if we were before yeah yes brew yeah was pretty…”
- 5:32 “…that he explicitly said that infants are not conscious it's the and no animals also are not no animal no human animals”
Tony Chemero
- 18:38 “…and it i couldn't handle it uh for personal reasons because i like the animal so much anyway um i remember i was talking to the the friend the pi uh this guy named james…”
- 38:29 “…perception of affordances bit then there's stuff that we do that's weird in the animal kingdom and listen to music yeah that's right although i just read something about the musicality…”