New research into the minds of crows has revealed a jaw-dropping finding: the canny corvids aren’t just clever - they also possess a form of consciousness, able to be consciously aware of the world around them in the present. In other words, they have subjective experiences.
This is called primary, or sensory, consciousness, and it had only previously been demonstrated in primates - which means we now may have to rethink our understanding of how consciousness arises, in addition to reconsidering the avian brain.
“The results of our study opens up a new way of looking at the evolution of awareness and its neurobiological constraints,” said animal physiologist Andreas Nieder of the University of Tübingen.
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