The mode of consciousness of nonhuman species is quite different from human consciousness.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
There is no doubt that there is a huge difference between human and nonhuman animals. But what we are overlooking is the fact that nonhuman animals are conscious beings, that they can suffer.
For me, consciousness is non-local, not limited to the body, and can exist independent of it.
All I ask is that we compare human consciousness with spirochete ecology.
But the first differentiation of its reflection in the manifested World is purely Spiritual, and the Beings generated in it are not endowed with a consciousness that has any relation to the one we conceive of.
Consciousness, for me, is a manifestation of complexity in biology. It's an emergent property.
No school of philosophy has ever solved this question of whether being determines consciousness or the other way around. It may be a false antithesis.
It's very likely that most mammals have consciousness, and probably birds, too.
And for me anyway, consciousness is three components: a personal component which for lack of a better word we can call the soul. A collective component which is more archetypal and a deeper level, and then a universal domain of consciousness.
I don't talk about consciousness. I talk about interiority.
Our unconscious is not more animal than our conscious, it is often even more human.