Sentience: The Invention of Consciousness

The story of a quest to uncover the evolutionary history of consciousness from one of the world's leading theoretical psychologists.



We feel, therefore we are. Conscious sensations ground our sense of self. They are crucial to our idea of ourselves as psychic beings: present, existent, and mattering. But is it only humans who feel this way? Do other animals? Will future machines? Weaving together intellectual adventure and cutting-edge science, Nicholas Humphrey describes in Sentience his qu...