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We know we humans are conscious and we strongly suspect higher animals are as well: for example, primates, dogs, cetaceans, whales and dolphins. But how far down the phylogenetic scale does consciousness go? Do fish feel pain? Do insects have awareness? Do bacteria sense? What are the implications?
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Iain McGilchrist FRSA is a British psychiatrist, philosopher and neuroscientist who wrote the 2009 book “The Master and His Emissary: The Divided Brain and the Making of the Western World”.
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