Making Really Sure
An internet board of college or high school memes will often feature consistent content about tests and the like. How obsessive they are, how continuous they are, and how endless they are. Seeing as a new animal will achieve consciousness will be tested, its... something to mark a new era of humanhood to an animal... with a test. Specifically, which ones? This is probably the most famous test in establishing higher consciousness and what we call a qualia. A qualia, in some terms, is the definition of the receiving of consciousness. It's actually hard to define, because unfortunately, it's so innate. It's so normal. It's so... us. And not all animals have it. The lower animals only seek to carry out their life instincts, and what is often unchanging life instruction to achieve homeostasis. The kingdom Cnidaria and Porifera, (basically jellyfish and sponges) both have very loose networks of neuroganglion that can communicate and receive environmental stimuli. But what d...