From foraging to autonoetic consciousness: The primal self as a consequence of embodied prospective foraging

Current Zoology

Volumn 61, Issue 2, 2015, Pages 368-381

  Hills, Thomas T ^a   Butterfill, Stephen ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WARWICK   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WARWICK   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Consciousness; Episodic future thinking; Foraging; Mental time travel; Self projection

Indexed keywords

METAZOA;

EID: 84925443899     PISSN: 16745507     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/czoolo/61.2.368     Document Type: Article

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