Type of Publication: | Journal article |
Publication status: | Published |
URI (citable link): | http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:bsz:352-2-2d1a5jwtvp0a2 |
Author: | Carls-Diamante, Sidney |
Year of publication: | 2022 |
Published in: | Frontiers in Systems Neuroscience ; 16 (2022). - 840022. - Frontiers Research Foundation. - eISSN 1662-5137 |
Pubmed ID: | 35401127 |
DOI (citable link): | https://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fnsys.2022.840022 |
Summary: |
The cognitive capacities and behavioural repertoire of octopuses have led to speculation that these animals may possess consciousness. However, the nervous system of octopuses is radically different from those typically associated with conscious experience: rather than being centralised and profoundly integrated, the octopus nervous system is distributed into components with considerable functional autonomy from each other. Of particular note is the arm nervous system: when severed, octopus arms still exhibit behaviours that are nearly identical to those exhibited when the animal is intact. Given these factors, there is reason to speculate that if octopuses do possess consciousness, it may be of a form highly dissimilar to familiar models. In particular, it may be that the octopus arm is capable of supporting an idiosyncratic field of consciousness. As such, in addition to the likelihood that there is something it is like to be an octopus, there may also be something it is like to be an octopus arm. This manuscript explores this possibility.
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Subject (DDC): | 100 Philosophy |
Keywords: | octopus consciousness, octopus arm, octo-munculus, multiple consciousness, unity of consciousness |
Link to License: | Attribution 4.0 International |
Bibliography of Konstanz: | Yes |
Refereed: | Yes |
CARLS-DIAMANTE, Sidney, 2022. Where Is It Like to Be an Octopus?. In: Frontiers in Systems Neuroscience. Frontiers Research Foundation. 16, 840022. eISSN 1662-5137. Available under: doi: 10.3389/fnsys.2022.840022
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