The fish in the creek is sentient, even if I can’t speak with it
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Summary: | In this paper I argue that Velmens’ reflexive model of perceptual consciousness is useful for understanding the first-person perspective and sentience in animals. I then offer a defense of the proposal that ray-finned bony fish have a first-person perspective and sentience. This defense has two prongs. The first prong is presence of a substantial body of evidence that the neuroanatomy of the fish brain exhibits basic organizational principles associated with consciousness in mammals. These principles include a relationship between a second-order sensory relay, the preglomerular complex, and the fish pallium which bears a resemblance to the relationship between the mammalian thalamus and the neocortex, the existence of feedback/feedforward and reentrant circuitry in the pallium, and structural and functional differences among divisions of the fish pallium. The second prong is the existence of behaviors in fish that exhibit significant flexibility in the presence of environmental change and require relational learning among stimuli distributed in space, over time, or both. I conclude that, although they are instantiated differently, a first-person perspective and sentience are present in fish. |
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The fish in the creek is sentient, even if I can’t speak with itSentienceFishBehaviorPalliumReflexive monismIn this paper I argue that Velmens’ reflexive model of perceptual consciousness is useful for understanding the first-person perspective and sentience in animals. I then offer a defense of the proposal that ray-finned bony fish have a first-person perspective and sentience. This defense has two prongs. The first prong is presence of a substantial body of evidence that the neuroanatomy of the fish brain exhibits basic organizational principles associated with consciousness in mammals. These principles include a relationship between a second-order sensory relay, the preglomerular complex, and the fish pallium which bears a resemblance to the relationship between the mammalian thalamus and the neocortex, the existence of feedback/feedforward and reentrant circuitry in the pallium, and structural and functional differences among divisions of the fish pallium. The second prong is the existence of behaviors in fish that exhibit significant flexibility in the presence of environmental change and require relational learning among stimuli distributed in space, over time, or both. I conclude that, although they are instantiated differently, a first-person perspective and sentience are present in fish.Faculdade de Filosofia e Ciências2023-02-13info:eu-repo/semantics/articleinfo:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersionapplication/pdftext/htmlapplication/x-mobipocket-ebookapplication/epub+ziphttps://revistas.marilia.unesp.br/index.php/transformacao/article/view/8704TRANS/FORM/AÇÃO: Revista de Filosofia da Unesp; v. 41 n. Special Issue: Número Especial; 119-152TRANS/FORM/AÇÃO: Revista de Filosofia; Vol. 41 No. Special Issue: Special Issue/2018; 119-152TRANS/FORM/AÇÃO: Revista de Filosofia; Vol. 41 Núm. Special Issue: Número Especial; 119-152TRANS/FORM/AÇÃO: Revista de Filosofia; Vol. 41 No. Special Issue: Número Especial; 119-152TRANS/FORM/AÇÃO: Revista de Filosofia; V. 41 N. Special Issue: Número Especial; 119-1521980-539X0101-3173reponame:Trans/Form/Ação (Online)instname:Universidade Estadual Paulista (UNESP)instacron:UNESPenghttps://revistas.marilia.unesp.br/index.php/transformacao/article/view/8704/10569https://revistas.marilia.unesp.br/index.php/transformacao/article/view/8704/10570https://revistas.marilia.unesp.br/index.php/transformacao/article/view/8704/12900https://revistas.marilia.unesp.br/index.php/transformacao/article/view/8704/12901Copyright (c) 2023 TRANS/FORM/AÇÃO: Revista de Filosofiahttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccessWoodruff, Michael L.2023-04-28T13:38:52Zoai:ojs.revistas.marilia.unesp.br:article/8704Revistahttps://revistas.marilia.unesp.br/index.php/transformacao/PUBhttps://old.scielo.br/oai/scielo-oai.phptransformacao@marilia.unesp.br1980-539X0101-3173opendoar:2023-04-28T13:38:52Trans/Form/Ação (Online) - Universidade Estadual Paulista (UNESP)false |
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The fish in the creek is sentient, even if I can’t speak with it |
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The fish in the creek is sentient, even if I can’t speak with it |
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The fish in the creek is sentient, even if I can’t speak with it Woodruff, Michael L. Sentience Fish Behavior Pallium Reflexive monism |
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The fish in the creek is sentient, even if I can’t speak with it |
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The fish in the creek is sentient, even if I can’t speak with it |
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The fish in the creek is sentient, even if I can’t speak with it |
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The fish in the creek is sentient, even if I can’t speak with it |
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Woodruff, Michael L. |
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Woodruff, Michael L. |
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Sentience Fish Behavior Pallium Reflexive monism |
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Sentience Fish Behavior Pallium Reflexive monism |
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In this paper I argue that Velmens’ reflexive model of perceptual consciousness is useful for understanding the first-person perspective and sentience in animals. I then offer a defense of the proposal that ray-finned bony fish have a first-person perspective and sentience. This defense has two prongs. The first prong is presence of a substantial body of evidence that the neuroanatomy of the fish brain exhibits basic organizational principles associated with consciousness in mammals. These principles include a relationship between a second-order sensory relay, the preglomerular complex, and the fish pallium which bears a resemblance to the relationship between the mammalian thalamus and the neocortex, the existence of feedback/feedforward and reentrant circuitry in the pallium, and structural and functional differences among divisions of the fish pallium. The second prong is the existence of behaviors in fish that exhibit significant flexibility in the presence of environmental change and require relational learning among stimuli distributed in space, over time, or both. I conclude that, although they are instantiated differently, a first-person perspective and sentience are present in fish. |
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