"Animal Consciousness: Evidence, Models, and Clues”

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• Peter Godfrey Smith
• Friday 30 May 2025, 16:30-18:00
• Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology.

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The talk will look at evidence for felt experience (consciousness in a minimal sense) in a number of invertebrate animals. I’ll do this by going through a sequence of experiments (some well-known, some newer) on hermit crabs, octopuses, cuttlefish, bees, and fruit flies. I will emphasize interactions between different kinds of evidence, and the role of some fortuitous observations. A preprint by Hakwan Lau criticizing the whole enterprise will be discussed at the end.

This talk is part of the Zangwill Club series.

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