How can we know if another animal has consciousness?

How can we know if another animal has consciousness?

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if they have neurons

There's the mirror test, beyond that we'll have to get creative.

How can I know if other humans have consciousness?

How can I know that anything exists outside of my perceptions?

Look how it works.

>t. solipsist p-zombie

Everyone feels like they're conscious from their own perspective. The question is, how do you know YOU'RE conscious, and that someone else isn't doing the thinking for you?

Someone else is definitely doing the thinking for me. I don't decide hardly anything that goes on, cognitively wise. I don't decide my thoughts, I don't decide what my perceptions pick up, I don't even decide at what level of performance my cognition works at, at any give time.
Free will is a joke

ants have passed the mirror test
it means nothing
That's not to say ants aren't conscious but they're not more conscious than mammals that don't pass the test.

ask them to invent something new
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