um how the hell would I know how "concious" other creatures are? whether they have stream-of-concious and are self-aware?

When I learn how to talk to an octopus, I'll ask them. The questions are silly. They use labels for identification that scholars and philosophers have spent centuries arguing about and I'm supposed to apply that to animals who can barely communicate with me - if at all? Might as well as me, an American, how Maori feel about living in the southern hemisphere.