Which animals have consciousness?

Drafted 2010 revised Dec 2015

Although all animals and plants are considered living things, some of them actually don't know that they exist due to the fact they don't possess consciousness. Biologists believe that the nervous system is the main ingredient that provides consciousness. Without it, some living things don't even know that they exist.

The nervous system is basically made up of the Brain and the Spinal cord. The Brain, like the arduino microcontroller, stores information. The brain is the common denominator that determines if an animal has consciousness or not. The Spinal Cord delivers the signals back and forth from our biological sensors and all other parts of our body. The biological sensors are the detectors that send and receive Queue messages; the language of our biological sensors(jlawsin 1988). The nervous system controls our thoughts, emotions, and experiences. The cells that make up the system is called Neurons. The number of neurons represent whether the subject has a brain or none. The sponge has 0 neuron. This means it doesn't have a brain nor a spinal cord. While elephants has the largest amount of neurons, 267 billions. They are more better than humans.

Sponge
Roundworm
Jellyfish
Leech
Pond snail
Sea slug
Fruit fly
Lobster
Ant
Honey bee
Cockroach
Frog
Mouse
Hamster
Octopus
Cat
Monkey
Human
Elephant

Human 19,000,000,000–23,000,000,000 For average adult "The average number of neocortical neurons was 19 billion in female brains and 23 billion in male brains."

In his 1637 treatise “Discourse on Method”, René Descartes argued that “it is more probable that worms and flies and caterpillars move mechanically than that they all have immortal souls.” Others argue that the basis of consciousness lies on a centralized nervous system whose central organ is basically the brain. Animals like octopus, squids, insects, arachnids and crustaceans are conscious due to this indicator. However, bacteria, archaea, protists, fungi, plants, sponges, corals, anemones, hydras, and certain animals like starfish, sea urchins and sea cucumbers are not conscious because they don't have brains. A Penn State University biologist Victoria Braithwaite, who studies pain perception, fear and suffering in fish, however, thought we shouldn’t be studying things we don’t understand.” I do agree with her. At the time, I was doing I.M. experiments with my four-legged best friend, I discovered a disturbing consequence that triggered me to immediately stop teaching and humanizing Zero.

"Convergent evidence indicates that non-human animals have the neuroanatomical, neurochemical, and neurophysiological substrates of conscious states along with the capacity to exhibit intentional behaviors. 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." ~ Cambridge Declaration on Consciousness, July 7, 2012

"It is inhuman to humanize animals; 
the consequences are just very disturbing,
it is like raising a child in a cage." 
~ Joey Lawsin, Information Materialization

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Public Domain Notice: Copyright (c) 2000. All rights reserved. This article is part of a book entitled Biotronics: The Silver Species. Copies are welcome to be shared or distributed publicly as long proper citations are observed. Please cite as follows: The Biotronics Project, Joey Lawsin, 1988, USA.

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