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Individuality, subjectivity, and minimal cognition

Godfrey-Smith, Peter·2016·Biology & Philosophy
DOI 10.1007/s10539-016-9543-1
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  • There are agents at multiple levels of organisation within a system.

    “This gives us the possibility of explaining how it can be that there are agents at multiple levels of organisation within a system which solves puzzles raised by colonies of single celled organisms such as slime moulds”

    From Traces of thinking: a stigmergic approach to 4E cognition (2025) · cites this paper as Godfrey-Smith, 2016

  • Other theorists have not shied away from multiple levels of agency: Hutchins explores agents consisting of agents in distributed cognitive systems, Goldstone and Theiner offer a computational systems account of group cognition in such terms, and Godfrey-Smith explores the transition between single and multicelled organisms in terms of agency and subjectivity.

    “Hutchins explores the dynamics of agents consisting of agents in distributed cognitive systems (Hutchins, 1995a) Goldstone and Theiner (2017 ) offer a computational systems account of group cognition in such terms, and Peter Godfrey-Smith (2016) explores the transition between single and multicelled organisms in terms of agency and subjectivity.”

    From Traces of thinking: a stigmergic approach to 4E cognition (2025) · cites this paper as Godfrey-Smith (2016)

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Authors
Godfrey-Smith, P.
Venue
Biology & Philosophy
Publisher
Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Published
2016-10-25
Volume
31
Issue
6
Pages
775-796
ISSN
  • 0169-3867 (ISSN-L)
  • 1572-8404
DOI
10.1007/s10539-016-9543-1
OpenAlex
W2536874256
Cited by
76
References
0
Citations by year
2026: 5 · 2025: 7 · 2024: 8 · 2023: 5 · 2022: 5 · 2021: 12 · 2020: 9 · 2019: 10 · 2018: 6 · 2017: 6 · 2016: 3
FWCI
11.86
Type
journal article
Language
en
Open access
closed
Licence
www.springer.com/tdm (unspecified)
Locations
Biology & Philosophy (publishedVersion)
Topics
  • Social Sciences › Psychology › Experimental and Cognitive Psychology › Philosophy and Theoretical Science
  • Social Sciences › Arts and Humanities › History and Philosophy of Science › Philosophy and History of Science
  • Life Sciences › Neuroscience › Cognitive Neuroscience › Embodied and Extended Cognition
Keywords
biological individuality, subjectivity, subjective experience, animal cognition, nervous system, evolution of consciousness

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