Consciousness is the experience of being. If there is an experience of what it is like to be a thing, then that thing can be said to be conscious. Such things

Consciousness is the experience of being. If there is an experience of what it is like to be a thing, then that thing can be said to be conscious. Such things may be some subset of or superset containing "things with brains." But the idea that it is uniquely human seems absurd.