The general rule in the field is that it is impossible to answer about other people/beings consciousness. Among scholars, this is known as the "what is like to

The general rule in the field is that it is impossible to answer about other people/beings consciousness. Among scholars, this is known as the "what is like to be a bat" rule, after a seminal 1974 paper by Thomas Nagel (see http://www.clarku.edu/students/philosophyclub/docs/nagel.pdf http://www.clarku.edu/students/philosophyclub/docs/nagel.pdf )