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Veit, W. 
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7701-8995
(2025)
Comparative consciousness research in ecological context: elephants, macaques, plovers, and a case against plant consciousness.
Adaptive Behavior.
ISSN 1741-2633
doi: 10.1177/10597123251413199
Abstract/Summary
In this article, I demonstrate the value of the pathological complexity thesis for comparative consciousness research. I discuss how Ristau’s piping plover research illuminates links between life-history complexity and intentionality. How Sinha’s bonnet macaque studies demonstrate how social drivers of pathological complexity predict self-awareness and mindreading capacities. And how Ross’s discussion of elephant life histories and consciousness allows us to compare the phenomenology if humans and elephants. Finally, I address Yilmaz’s discussion of the case for plant consciousness.
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| Item Type | Article |
| URI | https://centaur.reading.ac.uk/id/eprint/127621 |
| Identification Number/DOI | 10.1177/10597123251413199 |
| Refereed | Yes |
| Divisions | Arts, Humanities and Social Science > School of Humanities > Philosophy |
| Publisher | SAGE Publications |
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