Yes, exactly. I find that that is what distinguishes us from animals. "I am happy because of this cool new toy that I got gifted to me because it's my birthday" versus "I am happy because I'm playing with this toy"

Because being aware of oneself in the past, present and future all at the same time allows us to view and theorise about our impact on ourselves and our surroundings. Animals don't do this, they run on stimuli and instinct and don't stop to theorise whether they are hungry or they got stomach ache.

edit: I wanted to say humans have an internal voice, but not all humans do so while it's a symptom of consciousness, I don't think an internal voice is the cause/reason

Dogs can be intelligent but that doesn't have to be linked to consciousness or awareness of self. See dolphins and how dogs and other animals react to their reflection.

Also, dogs are domesticated, so they don't just run on pure instinct. Selective breeding for traits is a thing, so wild animals (like bees as described in the article) is what I'm basing it on.

A bee finding its way home is like my phone GPS plotting the way back. My phone doesn't "feel" or "experience" being lost. It just does what it's built to do.

Calling consciousness experiencing things to then apply it to everything just feels like a rebrand to make it fit. An interesting read, but until we can accurately measure how to perform a test on a rock to see if it experiences anything, I don't think it has a good scientific basis.

Like, how can we ignore awareness of self? A dog can experience pain from an infected tooth, but it can't theorize as to why it happened. Sure, there can be evolutionary traits or learned behaviour, but it's not aware of the bigger picture. They are always just "in the moment" and act on internal and external stimuli.

One of our key functionalities was disrupted because the link was behind an icon 🙃

Good moment to evaluate whether that's the best solution going forwards!

This. Can't believe we're seeing "lol Reddit sucks" when this is a country-wide implementation and has nothing to do with Reddit in particular.

Jacky Jhaj, who was found guilty of sexual activity with two 15-year-olds in 2016

No need to speculate