Bibliograph

Tense bees and shell-shocked crabs, are animals conscious?, Michael Tye

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Tense bees and shell-shocked crabs, are animals conscious?, Michael Tye

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references and index

Illustrations

illustrations

Index

index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Tense bees and shell-shocked crabs

Nature of contents

bibliography

Oclc number

947144998

Responsibility statement

Michael Tye

Sub title

are animals conscious?

Summary

What is it like 'on the inside' for nonhuman animals? Do they feel anything? Most people happily accept that dogs, for example, share many experiences and feelings with us. But what about simpler creatures? Fish? Honeybees? Crabs? Turning to the artificial realm, what about robots? This work presents answers to these questions

Table Of Contents

Experience and its limits : the problem -- Experience and consciousness. Problem cases? ; The higher-order theory of consciousness ; Phenomenal consciousness versus access consciousness ; Self-consciousness ; The upshot for animal consciousness -- It's got to be human! Descartes and the animals ; Descartes and Turing ; Conceptualism about experience -- Our friends and neighbors. Beliefs and desires ; Experiences and feelings -- Reasoning about other species. Cupcake's pain ; Sharpening the issue ; Is the absence of a neocortex a defeater? ; Should we be agnostic? ; Alternative strategies -- A fish called Wanda. Pain ; Fish nociception and fish behavior ; Is there a better explanation? ; Fish fear ; Perceptual consciousness in fish ; Yes, but are there really fish qualia? -- Of birds and reptiles (and fish). The origins of birds ; Bird emotions ; Birds and pain ; Perceptual experiences in birds ; Reptiles -- Tense bees and shell-shocked crabs. Insect nociception and pain ; Insects and emotions ; Are bees zombies? ; Crabs and pain ; Crabs and bees -- The girl who can't feel pain. A complaint from Block ; Protozoa ; Plants ; Caterpillars -- Commander Data and Robot Rabbit. The original China-body problem ; Reasoning about commander data ; The silicon chip argument ; Real rabbit and robot rabbit ; A further reason for preferring the view that commander data and robot rabbit are conscious ; A final consideration -- The ethical treatment of animals. Animal welfarism ; Speciesism ; Regan and Rawls ; Centered speciesism and biological proximity ; The treatment of animals

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