From Sensing to Sentience: How Feeling Emerges from the Brain (Paperback)

Preface
Acknowledgments
1 Introduction
2 General features of biological emergence
3 The neurobiological and behavioral criteria for sentience
4 The stages of the emergence of sentience
5 Emergent Stage 1. Single-celled organisms and the emergence of sensing
6 Emergent Stage 2. Neurons, nervous systems and evolutionarily early brains
7 Emergent Stage 3. Animals with more neurobiologically evolved nervous systems and brains
8 Neurobiology, emergent “levels,” and sentience
9 Neurobiological emergentism
10 Demystifying the personal nature of sentience
11 Neurobiological emergentism
Epilogue
Notes
References