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Learning and the biology of consciousness: a commentary on Birch, Ginsburg, and Jablonka

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Birch, Ginsburg, and Jablonka suggest that Unlimited Associative Learning is a “transition marker” in the evolutionary process that produced consciousness, and organizes research by tying together a range of “hallmarks” of consciousness. I argue that the features they recognize as “hallmarks” are indeed important in the evolution of consciousness, but UAL may have a more limited role.

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  1. The first paper in the series is Ginsburg and Jablonka 2007; see the references in the target article for the ones that followed.

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Godfrey-Smith, P. Learning and the biology of consciousness: a commentary on Birch, Ginsburg, and Jablonka. Biol Philos 36, 44 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10539-021-09820-3

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