Book Review: Peter Godfrey-Smith, Metazoa: Animal minds and the birth of consciousness [Book Review]

Newtown Review of Books 2022 (2022)
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In this book, the author investigates if animals have consciousness. Two salient issues covered in it are the nature of subjectivity and how a sense of self (and awareness of the other) evolves from its biological underpinnings.

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Mind, Matter, and Metabolism.Peter Godfrey-Smith - 2016 - Journal of Philosophy 113 (10):481-506.

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