Eli5: What is human consciousness and what other species are thought to possess some form of consciousness?
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All of them. If they can react to there environments. They are aware of there surroundings.
To be conscious is to be able to have some kind of subjective experience or awareness of something. The word “sentience” is sometimes used instead of consciousness. Sentience refers to the ability to have positive and negative experiences caused by external affectations to our body or to sensations within our body.
Every animal on the planet reacts this way. Even insects that communicate with pheromones.
Consequently, the weight of evidence indicates that humans are not unique in possessing the neurological substrates that generate consciousness. Non-human animals, including all mammals and birds, and many other creatures, including octopuses, also possess these neurological substrates.
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