Shameless self promo: I had a great discussion with Peter Godfrey-Smith about his books and consciousness for my podcast https://mattasher.com/2021/04/22/ep-33

Shameless self promo: I had a great discussion with Peter Godfrey-Smith about his books and consciousness for my podcast https://mattasher.com/2021/04/22/ep-33-peter-godfrey-smith-on-sea-life-and-the-evolution-of-consciousness/ https://mattasher.com/2021/04/22/ep-33-peter-godfrey-smith-o... My own leaning is towards a panpsychist view, in which case the idea of animal consciousness as a binary, or even a scalar, makes no sense. It's multifaceted and complex and built from overlapping (resonant?) pieces. For example, human tongues can act like they have a mind of their own just like the arms of an octopus.