Your periodic reminder that we don't know what consciousness is, and every time we make a test or category for it, we end up having to include many kinds of minds and lives that make a LOT of people Very uncomfortable; and we also end up Excluding kinds of Humans, a fact which SHOULD make More of us more uncomfortable than it does.
https://www.nbcnews.com/science/science-news/animal-consciousness-scientists-push-new-paradigm-rcna148213