The function(s) of consciousness: an evolutionary perspective

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• What: The focus of this account is the evolutionary emergence of conscious experience in its simplest form, referred to by some authors as sentience (e_g, Feinberg, 2024), by others as awareness (Ehret and Ramond, 2022), but which in any case is not always easy to define in relation to more fully elaborated forms of conscious experience (Irwin, 2023). Since the focus of this account is on function rather than operational issues, the term I will use here for this kind of function is global oversight, which could either be a self-organizing process, as in most formulations . . .
  

   

  

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