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Higher animals? What other animal is conscious?



Certainly the great apes like chimps, gorillas, etc, must have some sort of consciousness. So must whales, dolphins, etc. Probably even cats and dogs have a sort of self-awareness, not to mention variuous birds and so on.

Whales communicate through various songs and work together in complex social groups. Apes do the same, they also have rules of conduct, as was shown by the feral child, John Ssebunya, raised by monkeys in Africa.

Indeed, the line between human consciouness and animal consciousnesss is fuzzy. This is consistent with evolutionary theory in that consciouness evolved gradually, in relation to the development of the brain.

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