Conference in French : Peculiarity, subjectivity and emergence of the animal consciousness
by Dr. Franck COSSON, PhD
3 April 2017 - 3 April 2017
France
Title : Peculiarity, subjectivity and emergence of the animal consciousness
Abstract :
Do animals reach conscious experiments? Is it necessary to consider them full subjects? This conference shows that certain animals reach a notion of what they feel as sensitive subjects on the basis of a global physical auto-affectation. The proposed hypothesis tries to establish that certain species escape the strict determinism on the basis of a relation distinguished with their environment. This individualised relation, based on the memorisation and the reinstatement of the past experiment, let appear subjective states reactivated in the report to the practised environment. This singularisation and this subjectivation of the animal conducts are discussed in the light of theories of the cerebral functioning and the emergence of original cognitive capacities, of data stemming from the behavioural ecology and of philosophic conceptions integrating the problem of the relations body/ consciousness.
References :
Cezilly (F.), Danchin (E.), Giraldeau (L.-A.) Ecologie comportementale, Dunod.
Cosson (F.) (2016), Animalité et humanité. La frontière croisée, Ovadia.
Dehaene (S.) (2016), Le code de la conscience, Odile Jacob.
Eccles (J.) et Popper (K.) (1977), The Self and its Brain, Springer Verlag.
Edelman (G.) (1992), Biologie de la conscience, Odile Jacob.
Lestel (D.) (2004), L’animal singulier, Seuil.
Maine de Biran (2001), Essai sur les fondements de la psychologie, Vrin.
Abstract :
Do animals reach conscious experiments? Is it necessary to consider them full subjects? This conference shows that certain animals reach a notion of what they feel as sensitive subjects on the basis of a global physical auto-affectation. The proposed hypothesis tries to establish that certain species escape the strict determinism on the basis of a relation distinguished with their environment. This individualised relation, based on the memorisation and the reinstatement of the past experiment, let appear subjective states reactivated in the report to the practised environment. This singularisation and this subjectivation of the animal conducts are discussed in the light of theories of the cerebral functioning and the emergence of original cognitive capacities, of data stemming from the behavioural ecology and of philosophic conceptions integrating the problem of the relations body/ consciousness.
References :
Cezilly (F.), Danchin (E.), Giraldeau (L.-A.) Ecologie comportementale, Dunod.
Cosson (F.) (2016), Animalité et humanité. La frontière croisée, Ovadia.
Dehaene (S.) (2016), Le code de la conscience, Odile Jacob.
Eccles (J.) et Popper (K.) (1977), The Self and its Brain, Springer Verlag.
Edelman (G.) (1992), Biologie de la conscience, Odile Jacob.
Lestel (D.) (2004), L’animal singulier, Seuil.
Maine de Biran (2001), Essai sur les fondements de la psychologie, Vrin.
Keywords
animal, consciousness