"Reber’s caterpillar offers no help" by Carl Safina

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Safina, Carl (2016) Reber’s caterpillar offers no help. Animal Sentience 11(12)

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http://safinacenter.org/about-carl-safina/

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Invited Commentary

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Arthur S. Reber, Caterpillars, consciousness and the origins of mind

Abstract

Reber’s target article “Caterpillars, consciousness and the origins of mind” seems only to shift but not to address the question of where the mind is and how minds occur.

Author Biography

Carl Safina is the inaugural endowed professor for nature and humanity at Stony Brook University, where he co-chairs the Alan Alda Center for Communicating Science and is founding president of the not-for-profit Safina Center. Beyond Words: What Animals Think and Feel is Carl’s seventh book. http://safinacenter.org/about-carl-safina/

DOI

10.51291/2377-7478.1180

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