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Crows Are Self-Aware Just Like Humans, And They May Be as Smart as Gorillas (www.popularmechanics.com)
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[–] yogthos@lemmy.ml 2 points 11 months ago

I never really understood why the default assumption is that consciousness is something unique to humans and we should default to assuming other animals are not conscious as opposed to the other way around.