Peter Godfrey-Smith's Metazoa and Joseph LeDoux's The Deep History of Ourselves present radically different big pictures regarding the nature, evolution and distribution of consciousness in animals. In this essay review, I discuss the motivations behind these big pictures and try to steer a course between them.
Keywords: Consciousness; Emotion; Evolution; Phenomenal consciousness; Sentience; Subjective experience.
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