DOI: 10.1017/psa.2026.10274 ISSN: 0031-8248
The 21 st Century Mind-Body Problem
Carrie FigdorAbstract
This paper articulates how recent advances in comparative behavioral and biological research are changing the nature of the mind/body problem from a human mind/human body problem to a problem of conceptualizing and organizing diverse types of minds in a hierarchical relational structure that is non-contingently related to phylogeny. It also discusses the impact of this refinement on our assessments of modal claims about possible artificial (AI) consciousness.