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Published Date: June 11, 2026

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Consciousness likely not unique to earthlings, paper says

Does consciousness depend on flesh and blood?

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Does consciousness depend on flesh and blood? The answer is almost certainly no, according to Eric Schwitzgebel, a distinguished professor of philosophy at the University of California, Riverside. In a new working paper, Schwitzgebel and Jeremy Pober, a former UCR graduate student who is now a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Lisbon, assert that…

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