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Publications

Journal articles 

  • Hedonic valence at the core of consciousness 
    Meertens, N. (2024). Hedonic valence at the core of consciousness: A review of “A philosophy for the science of animal consciousness” by Walter Veit. Philosophy and the Mind Sciences, 5. https://doi.org/10.33735/phimisci.2024.11472 
    This is a book review of Walter Veit's book: "A philosophy for the science of animal consciousness". 

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Conference papers 

  • A Framework for the Examination of Awareness in Artificial Systems 
    Lee, S., Meertens, N., Milner, E., Hauert, S. (2026). A Framework for the Examination of Awareness in Artificial Systems. In: Jiménez Rodríguez, A., et al. Biomimetic and Biohybrid Systems. Living Machines 2025. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 15582. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-032-07448-5_27

  • EMERGE - Emergent Awareness from minimal collectives
    Bacciu, D., Ambriola, V., Bahrami, B., Ceni, A., Cossu, A., De Caro, V., Della Santina, C., Deroy, O., Gallicchio, C., Guidotti, R., Hauert, S., Jones, S., Karpus, J., Lee, S., Liu, J., Lomonaco, V., Meertens, N., Milner, E., Monreale, A., Nakahara, R., Ramirez, M., Shahabi, S., Stölzle, M. (2024). EMERGE - Emergent Awareness from Minimal Collectives. In C. Secchi & L. Marconi (Eds.), European Robotics Forum 2024 (Vol. 32, pp. 87–91). Springer Nature Switzerland. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-76424-0_16

Pre-prints 

  • Animal Awareness: A Multidimensional Mapping of Action-Perception Abilities  
    Meertens, N. (2025). Animal awareness: A multidimensional mapping of action-perception abilities. PsyArXiv. https://doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/ta4vd_v1
    This paper introduces the concept of awareness, distinguishes it from (phenomenal) consciousness, and argues for its pragmatic value in mapping and studying abilities across a range of species.  

  • Just aware enough: Evaluating awareness across artificial systems  
    Meertens, N., Lee, S., & Deroy, O. (2026). Just aware enough: Evaluating awareness across artificial systems (Version 1). arXiv. https://doi.org/10.48550/ARXIV.2601.14901
    This paper introduces a practical method for evaluating awareness across diverse artificial systems.   

  • Folk attribution of awareness to artificial systems: functionalist by default, essentialist by contrast 
    Longin, L., Karpus, J., Meertens, N., Bahrami, B., & Deroy, O. (2025). Folk attribution of awareness to artificial systems: Functionalist by default, essentialist by contrast. PsyArXiv. https://doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/5ed7u_v1

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