Miniature brains, biological organization, and the minimal conditions of conscious experience: A review of Giorgio Vallortigara's The origins of consciousness

BioSystems · Published 2026-06-06 · DOI 10.1016/j.biosystems.2026.105831

Authors (2)

Wei Chen, Kun Cheng

Abstract

PubPorta does not have an abstract for this article yet.

Read the article at the publisher →

Publication details

Year

2026

Citation

Chen, W., Cheng, K. (2026). Miniature brains, biological organization, and the minimal conditions of conscious experience: A review of Giorgio Vallortigara's The origins of consciousness. BioSystems. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.biosystems.2026.105831

Related articles

• Impact of the symmetries of colour space on perceptual and categorical chromatic experiments · BioSystems · 2026 · Same journal
• Biochemical and gene regulatory dynamics as reservoir-like substrates for natural computing · BioSystems · 2026 · Same journal
• Internal constraints and structured possibility: A formal nomogenetic framework for modular biological systems · BioSystems · 2026 · Same journal
• A phenomenological multiscale framework for orientational interactions and viscoelasticity in migrating epithelial monolayers · BioSystems · 2026 · Same journal
• The formation of the quantum entanglement in DNA–mRNA system · BioSystems · 2026 · Same journal
• Spatiotemporal bursting in simulated cultures of cortical neurons · BioSystems · 2026 · Same journal
• Way to operationalization of the life process definition ‘from purposeful information’ resulting from Abel's proposal; mechanisms of evolutionary progress · BioSystems · 2026 · Same journal
• The quantum-to-classical transducer: A thermodynamic and quantum mechanical framework for the emergence of bioenergetics · BioSystems · 2026 · Same journal
• The Hill coefficient as Fisher information: An information-theoretic identity for allosteric cooperativity · BioSystems · 2026 · Same journal
• The behavioural and socio-cognitive implications of the evolution of the primate predatory pattern: An embodied and integrative theory of human carnivory · BioSystems · 2026 · Same journal