The science of consciousness is facing difficulties in theory,methodology and interdisciplinary integration.Philosopher Godfrey-Smith adopts a new approach to address the subjective experience problem in consciousness research.He not only introduces evolutionary biology,but also draws on ev-idence from multiple disciplines,including animal behavior and neuroscience.Grounded in a biological gradualism,he explores the question of the origin and evolution of subjective experience.In breadth,he examines a large range of species,from protozoa to metazoans;in depth,he traces successive evo-lutionary processes over large time scales.Godfrey-Smith thus found that the origin of an organism's subjective experience was associated with a signifi-cant improvement in its agency,which was further enriched by a series of new biological properties that evolved subsequently.He ultimately viewed human subjective experience as a biometrically marked"experience profile"with"breadth+focus".These research results provide a new perspective for us to understand human subjective experience and to solve the problem of consciousness.
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