Animal Cognition and Self-Awareness

The science is great because it's filled with scientists who fundamentally disagree on that question. I think we're moving toward an era where we're accepting that consciousness, if you define it as just having some sort of experience, any sort of experience in your mind at all,. You might have insects like Lars Chitka. He wrote a fantastic book that's just out on insects and he argues that they have consciousness as well. So then the question is, which of these things do animals have and not have? Do they have body self-awareness? Temporal self-awareness about themselves, projecting themselves in the future, episodic foresight, that kind of thing. Those can be empirical questions