If you think that a global workspace is needed for subjective experience, or a special kind of memory, or some other mechanism along these lines, you’ll hold that only complex brains that are fairly similar to ours can give rise to experiences that feel like something. These brains will probably be found outside of people, but perhaps only in mammals and birds. The result is what I’ll call latecomer views about subjective experience. These views don’t hold that the lights went on in a sudden flash, but they do hold that the “waking up” came late in the history of life and was due to features
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