The premise of this volume is that there is a continuum of semiotic agents across biology,
extending from the first individually competent cells to their colonial aggregations and then …

All species, extant and extinct, from the simplest unicellular prokaryotes to humans, have an
existential consciousness. Without sentience, the first cells that emerged some 4 billion …

The most widely accepted view in the biopsychological sciences is that the cognitive
functions that are diagnostic of mental operations, sentience or, more commonly …

A reductionistic, bottom‐up, cellular‐based concept of the origins of sentience and
consciousness has been put forward. Because all life is based on cells, any evolutionary …

Cellular life on Earth started some four billion years ago, taking nearly two billion years to
evolve from protocells to the first prokaryotic cells, including ancient archaea and bacteria …

According to Reber's model, Cellular Basis of Consciousness (CBC), sentience had its
origins in a unicellular organism and is an inherent property of living, mobile organic forms …

The origin and nature of sentience, the ability to subjectively experience, is one of the big
questions of biology and psychology, a topic that has challenged and tormented scholars …

The defining principle of evolutionary biology is that all species, extant and extinct, evolved
from ancient prokaryotic cells. Their initial appearance and adaptive evolution are proposed …

First Minds: Caterpillars,'Karyotes, and Consciousness presents a novel theory of the origins
of mind and consciousness dubbed the Cellular Basis of Consciousness (CBC). It argues …

A range of studies published in the last few decades promotes the cognitive aspects of life:
all organisms, from bacteria to mammals, are capable of sensing/perception, decision …