Neurobiological emergentism” explains how sentience—the subjective feeling aspects of consciousness—developed in ancient animals that evolved the first complex neural systems.

1Geisel School of Medicine, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire. 2Thayer School of Engineering, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire.

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