I don’t think consciousness is a byproduct

I’m not an expert and you shouldn’t particularly care what I think, but I’ll tell you anyway. Physicalists aka materialists are often presented with the challenge of the so-called hard problem of consciousness. That is, essentially, how and why does subjective experience arise from physical brains? In general, I have the impression that most physicalists…

What it means to say “lobsters are conscious”

The creationist site Evolution News recently posted an article entitled What Does It Mean to Say “Lobsters Are Conscious”? The thrust of this article is to use research about animal sentience to uphold mind-body dualism while simultaneously downplaying the similarities between human and animal minds. In short, the author Denyse O’Leary is trying to have…