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Sentience : the invention of consciousness

by Nicholas Humphrey

This study analyses the evolutionary history of consciousness, proposing that conscious feeling is a relatively recent development found only in warm-blooded animals, whilst invertebrates and current machines lack these sensations.

Accession 21722 ISBN 9780198858539 Publisher Oxford University Press
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