292 | Jonathan Birch on Animal Sentience

3916.058 - 3943.075 Jonathan Birch

Well, this is Stan De Haan's theory. His book Consciousness and the Brain is a nice exposition of it. But it's this quite popular idea that consciousness has to do with a network that puts the whole brain on the same page, as it were, by taking inputs from many, many different sensory sources and integrating them into something coherent and then broadcasting that content back