A growing number of non-human animal species are being seriously considered as
candidates for sentience, but plants are either forgotten or explicitly excluded from these …

A recent development in the psychological and neuroscientific study of consciousness has
been the tendency to conceptualize consciousness as a multidimensional phenomenon …

The science of animal consciousness investigates (i) which animal species are conscious
(the distribution question) and (ii) how conscious experience differs in detail between …

Technological advances raise new puzzles and challenges for cognitive science and the
study of how humans think about and interact with artificial intelligence (AI). For example, the …

Postoperative delirium (POD) is a complicated and harmful clinical syndrome. Traditional
behaviour analysis mostly focuses on static parameters. However, animal behaviour is a …

Definitions of animal welfare often invoke consciousness or sentience. Marian Stamp
Dawkins has argued that to define animal welfare this way is a mistake. In Dawkins's …

Whether animals fare well or not is of ethical significance. For this reason, their capacity for
wellbeing, ie, how good or bad the lives of animals can go, is of ethical significance as well. I …

How does neuronal activity give rise to our conscious experience of the outside world? This
question has fascinated philosophers for centuries and is being increasingly addressed …

Transient and hardly traceable signs of diminished consciousness might be the only signs
that are apparent and reported during the scrutinous care of intensive care unit (ICU) staff …

in their books. Mitchell is a geneticist and neuroscientist at Trinity College Dublin. His Free
Agents devotes its first six chapters to an evolutionary account of the development of life and …