Is embodiment necessary for consciousness?
Nate Wright’s chapter, with Neil Lawrence and Nicky Clayton, appears in Perspectives on Machine Consciousness.
Nate Wright is a PhD student jointly supervised by Nicky Clayton (Professor Nicola Clayton FRS) and Neil Lawrence. His research combines machine learning with the comparative science of magic, to study how embodiment shapes cognition and decision-making. He is a member of the Comparative Cognition Lab in the Department of Psychology and holds a Cambridge Biosciences DTP studentship.
Perspectives on Machine Consciousness, Chapman & Hall: