The nature of primary consciousness. A new synthesis

摘要: While the philosophical puzzles about "life" that once confounded biology have all been solved by science, much of "mystery consciousness" remains unsolved due to multiple "explanatory gaps" between brain and conscious experience. One reason for this impasse is diverse architectures both within across species can create consciousness, thus making any single neurobiological feature insufficient explain it. We propose instead an array general biological features are found in living things, combined with a suite special unique animals evolved subjective Combining philosophical, evolutionary approaches we review our theory naturalism argue closes experience naturalizes "experiential subjectivity third-person observation brain.