DOI: 10.1017/s0140525x25103099 ISSN: 0140-525X
Conscious vision in fish
Eva Jablonka, Avraham EnglanderAbstract
We challenge Fleming and Michel’s arguments that aquatic animals do not have conscious vision. Focusing on fish, we suggest – on the basis of what we know about their cognition and evolution – that most fish are likely to have conscious vision, which evolved well before the transition to a largely terrestrial habitat. We end by clarifying the difference between our model-based, learning-driven view of the evolution of animal consciousness and Fleming and Michel’s view.