DOI: 10.1017/s0140525x25102781 ISSN: 0140-525X
Planning over changes in viewpoint, reality-monitoring, and consciousness in jumping spiders?
Robert William KentridgeAbstract
Arthropods, such as jumping spiders, depend on vision over a distance when hunting. Their tactics suggest planning. Experimental evidence indicates that they use representations acquired from one location when acting in another. These tiny creatures should, therefore, depend upon reality-monitoring and be conscious. Is this necessarily the case? Could we know what sort of consciousness they might possess?