Area of research
Plant Science · Paleontology
Research interest
Research interests include Consciousness, Cognitive science, Psychology, Epistemology, Sentience, and Biology.
Cell consciousness: a dissenting opinion
Plant sentience: The burden of proof
Plants lack the functional neurotransmitters and signaling pathways required for sentience in animals
Decapod sentience: Promising framework and evidence
Vertebrate origins are informed by larval lampreys (ammocoetes): a response to Miyashita<i>et al.</i>, 2021
Multiple Routes to Animal Consciousness: Constrained Multiple Realizability Rather Than Modest Identity Theory
Integrated information theory does not make plant consciousness more convincing
A Traditional Scientific Perspective on the Integrated Information Theory of Consciousness
Understanding plant behavior: a student perspective: response to Van Volkenburgh et al.
Unlimited associative learning and consciousness: further support and some caveats about a link to stress
Debunking a myth: plant consciousness
Phenomenal Consciousness and Emergence: Eliminating the Explanatory Gap
Anesthetics and plants: no pain, no brain, and therefore no consciousness
Subjectivity “Demystified”: Neurobiology, Evolution, and the Explanatory Gap
The octopus: A beautiful (but disorganized) “mind”
Shoring up the precautionary BAR