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Adam Elga and Johan Gustafsson argue that any ambiguity-sensitive agent—whether ambiguity-averse or ambiguity-seeking—is vulnerable to a money pump, a sequence of choices that leaves the agent worse o…

A new paper by Matthias Michel, published in Philosophy and Phenomenological Research in January 2026, argues that most empirical functions treated as markers of consciousness in animal sentience rese…