Despite their elegant descriptions of animal behavior, I am not sanguine about the effort of some scholars to extend consciousness to lower animals like insects. One example of such efforts is found ...

In the light of this constructive criticism of the MCS label, I propose three classes of actions that could improve the way we describe subjective and cognitive state of non-communicating patients, ...

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