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Is embodiment necessary for consciousness?

23 September 2026

Is embodiment necessary for consciousness?

23 September 2026

Is Embodiment Necessary for Consciousness?, led by Nathaniel Wright and co-authored with Neil Lawrence and Nicky Clayton, is published as a chapter in Perspectives on Machine Consciousness, edited by Calum Chace and Ted Lappas (Chapman & Hall).

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PhD Student, Cambridge University

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Neil D. Lawrence

The DeepMind Professor of Machine Learning, Cambridge University

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