{"id":244982,"date":"2024-07-18T14:57:02","date_gmt":"2024-07-18T14:57:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/2024\/07\/18\/are-animals-conscious-were-finally-realising-that-many-species-are\/"},"modified":"2025-06-25T17:14:28","modified_gmt":"2025-06-25T17:14:28","slug":"are-animals-conscious-were-finally-realising-that-many-species-are","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/2024\/07\/18\/are-animals-conscious-were-finally-realising-that-many-species-are\/","title":{"rendered":"Are animals conscious? We\u2019re finally realising that many species are"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Octopuses like Doflein\u2019s octopus may experience a degree of consciousness<\/p>\n

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The following is an extract from our nature newsletter Wild Wild Life.\u00a0Sign up to receive it for free<\/a>\u00a0in your inbox every month.<\/em><\/p>\n

In recent decades, experiments have begun to catch up with what people who work closely with animals have always known \u2013 that animals have an inner life, and consciousness isn\u2019t uniquely human.<\/p>\n

Consciousness is a concept that is fiendishly difficult to define. There have been many attempts: is it awareness, or awareness of that awareness, or self-awareness instead? But a useful working definition might be\u2026<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n

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