Laut einer Rezension aus dem Jahr 2025 in Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B können Insekten, darunter auch Bienen, Formen subjektiver Erfahrung besitzen, die emotionale Zustände, Aufmerksamkeit und kognitive Voreingenommenheit zeigen, die die Ansicht in Frage stellen, dass Bewusstsein ein großes Gehirn erfordert.
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/41229297/
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The more you learn and spend time with animals the more convinced I get that consciousness is something that emerged very early in the evolution of brains, and that it’s something most animals to some degree have in common.
With how little we know about consciousness, I’m always surprised at how happy people are to make assumptions about other creatures experiences in regards to how we treat them.
I have an anecdotal bee story. Had a bee get stuck on my garage door. Its back leg was pinched between 2 panels on the garage door. It had the bad luck to be in the wrong place when the garage door closed I guess. Assuming it might fall when I released it by opening the door, I got a little dish to catch it and put a little sugar water on it. The bee did drink a little sugar water. When it was finally ready to fly it flew in circles around me several times. Maybe anthropomorphizing but it felt like it was saying thank you. For a few weeks after when I’d go outside I had several incidents of a bee flying to me and doing the same circles around me. Same bee? I don’t know. But bumble bees never approached me before or since when I’m out gardening even if I’m working on a plant they are currently gathering pollen from.
Anecdotal, but my experiences in the garden have convinced me that all life striving organisms are in some way conscious. Just a feeling i get looking at the animals and plants
Maybe our concept of consciousness itself is a bit ill defined and made up in an anthropocentric sense
Ants pass the mirror test.
https://www.journalofscience.net/doi/MjY4a2FsYWkxNDc4NTIzNjk=