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Insects cannot tell us anything about subjective experience or the origin of consciousness.

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Title: Insects cannot tell us anything about subjective experience or the origin of consciousness.
Authors: Key, Brian1 brian.key@uq.edu.au, Arlinghaus, Robert2, Browman, Howard I.3
Source: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America. 7/5/2016, Vol. 113 Issue 27, pE3813-E3813. 1p.
Subjects: Insect physiology, Consciousness, Hypothesis, Insect behavior, Sensory stimulation
Abstract: The article presents an argument that insects have the capacity of subjective experience or consciousness. The authors highlights the basis of the hypothesis the vertebrate membrane of an insect's brain is capable of subjective experience and that it has the capacity to integrate sensory stimulation and neural representation that conduct the behavior of insects. The authors also argues that an insect's brain has analogous functional properties that has the capacity of subjective experience.
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Abstract:The article presents an argument that insects have the capacity of subjective experience or consciousness. The authors highlights the basis of the hypothesis the vertebrate membrane of an insect's brain is capable of subjective experience and that it has the capacity to integrate sensory stimulation and neural representation that conduct the behavior of insects. The authors also argues that an insect's brain has analogous functional properties that has the capacity of subjective experience.
ISSN:00278424
DOI:10.1073/pnas.1606835113