In this paper I argue that Velmens’ reflexive model of perceptual consciousness is useful for understanding the first-person perspective and sentience in animals. I then offer a defense of the proposal that ray-finned bony fish have a first-person perspective and sentience. This defense has two prongs. The first prong is presence of a substantial body of evidence that the neuroanatomy of the fish brain exhibits basic organizational principles associated with consciousness in mammals. These principles include a relationship between a second-order sensory relay, the preglomerular complex, and the fish pallium which bears a resemblance to the relationship between the mammalian thalamus and the neocortex, the existence of feedback/feedforward and reentrant circuitry in the pallium, and structural and functional differences among divisions of the fish pallium. The second prong is the existence of behaviors in fish that exhibit significant flexibility in the presence of environmental change and require relational learning among stimuli distributed in space, over time, or both. I conclude that, although they are instantiated differently, a first-person perspective and sentience are present in fish.

京都大学 / 0048 / 新制・課程博士 / 博士(医学) / 甲第19568号 / 医博第4075号 / 新制||医||1013(附属図書館) / 32604 / 京都大学大学院医学研究科医学専攻 / (主査)教授 伊佐 正, 教授 渡邉 大, 教授 影山 龍一郎 / 学位規則第4条第1項該当 / Doctor of Medical Science / Kyoto University / DFAM

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El objetivo de esta Tesis ha sido profundizar en el estudio del desarrollo del complejo claustroamigdalino en ratón. Para ello hemos estudiado: 1) cuales de sus componentes derivan del palio lateral o ventral, en base a expresión diferencial de genes reguladores Dbx1, Lhx9, Lhx2, Lmo3, Lmo4, Cadherina 8 y Emx1 durante el desarrollo embrionario; 2) el desarrollo de las interneuronas del complejo claustroamigdalino que contienen proteínas ligadoras de calcio (incluyendo el desarrollo de sus circuitos locales); 3) el origen histogenético de dichas interneuronas, mediante cultivos organotípicos y el análisis del ratón transgénico Nkx2.1-Cre/Rosa26-GFP (Kessaris y col. 2006). Nuestros datos permiten distinguir los componentes paliales laterales o ventrales del complejo, que contienen múltiples subtipos de interneuronas con orígenes en distintas subdivisiones del subpalio. Esto abre las puertas a futuras investigaciones sobre la conectividad y función de cada subtipo de interneurona, y sobre su grado de implicación en los desórdenes neuropsiquiátricos. / The objective of this Doctoral Thesis was to deepen in the study of the development of the claustroamygdaloid complex in mouse. For that, we pursued to study: 1) which components derive from either the lateral or ventral pallium based on differential expression of regulatory genes (Dbx1, Lhx9, Lhx2, Lmo3, Lmo4, Cadherina 8 y Emx1) during embryonic development; 2) the development of interneurons of the claustroamygdaloid complex that contain calcium binding proteins (including the development of its local circuits); 3) the histogenetic origin of these interneurons, by means of organotypic cultures and analysis of the transgenic mouse Nkx2.1-Cre/Rosa26-GFP (Kessaris and col. 2006). Our data allowed the distinction between lateral and ventral pallial components of the complex, which contain multiple subtypes of interneurons with origins in different subpallial subdivisions. This opens new venues for future investigations on the connectivity and function of each interneuron subtype, and on their involvement in neuropsychiatric disorders.