Jeremy I. Skipper
University College London
Jeremy I. Skipper is a co-author of Compatibilist emergence for the science of consciousness. Cambridge lists affiliations at the UCL Centre for Consciousness Research and the Department of Experimental Psychology, University College London. The Open Peer Commentary appeared in Behavioral and Brain Sciences 49, e321, on 17 September 2026. Its other authors are George Blackburne, Alberto Liardi, Pedro A. M. Mediano, and Fernando E. Rosas.
The publisher’s abstract suggests that the autopoietic character of life may require and promote the relevant kind of emergence. The authors describe that emergence as necessary but not sufficient for consciousness. The full commentary was not available for this account. Neither the abstract nor the affiliation establishes Skipper’s individual role in the argument or a commitment to exclusively biological consciousness.
Our editorial analysis of compatibilist emergence keeps the proposal distinct from a consciousness test. Finding a proposed necessary property in neural dynamics would leave open whether that property, together with other conditions, explains experience.
Known for. Co-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
- Fernando E. RosasUniversity of Sussex, Imperial College London, University of Oxford, and PIBBSSCorresponding author of the BBS commentary on compatibilist emergence
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