Fernando E. Rosas
University of Sussex, Imperial College London, University of Oxford, and PIBBSS
Fernando E. Rosas is the corresponding author of Compatibilist emergence for the science of consciousness. Cambridge published the Open Peer Commentary in Behavioral and Brain Sciences 49, e321, on 17 September 2026. Its other authors are George Blackburne, Alberto Liardi, Jeremy I. Skipper, and Pedro A. M. Mediano. The publisher lists affiliations at Sussex, Imperial, Oxford, and Principles of Intelligent Behavior in Biological and Social Systems, or PIBBSS.
The publisher’s abstract proposes an account of subjectivity and substrate through compatibilist emergence. It suggests that life’s autopoietic character may require and promote emergence that is necessary but not sufficient for consciousness. This account uses the abstract and author details. They do not establish Rosas’s individual theoretical contribution or a commitment to Integrated Information Theory.
Our editorial assessment of compatibilist emergence asks how a measure of higher scale dynamics could bear on evidence of experience. A formal property of a system and a sufficient condition for consciousness require separate justification.
Known for. Corresponding author of the BBS commentary on compatibilist emergence
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- Pedro MedianoImperial College London and the University of CambridgeIntegrated Information Decomposition, and the revised non-negative measure of integrated information
- George BlackburneUniversity College London and Imperial College LondonFirst author of the BBS commentary on compatibilist emergence
- Alberto LiardiImperial College LondonCo-author of the BBS commentary on compatibilist emergence
- Jeremy I. SkipperUniversity College LondonCo-author of the BBS commentary on compatibilist emergence
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