>“Besides crows, this kind of neurobiological evidence for sensory consciousness only exists in humans and macaque monkeys.” Well, the fact that animals can re

>“Besides crows, this kind of neurobiological evidence for sensory consciousness only exists in humans and macaque monkeys.” Well, the fact that animals can remember things for more than a second or two is pretty good evidence that they have this kind of sensory consciousness. The ability to say you saw something and the ability to act on having seen something seem to be intimately tied together in every case we can probe. We only seem to be influenced by subliminal stimuli for a second or two, for instance. And there are people whose vision systems are cut off from their consciousness, they can pick up objects in front of them but not say that there's an object in front of them. A normal person can close their eyes then remember where an object was and pick it up. They can't. So you would tend to expect this in any animal capable of remembering things.