Attribution of consciousness to non-human animals: insights from AI and multidimensional frameworks

Folk attributions of consciousness to non-human systems often reveal what may be termed double bias. Within the standard distinction between phenomenal and access consciousness, non-human animals often receive low attributions of consciousness despite convergent behavioral and neurobiological evidence treated as relevant to subjective experience. By contrast, disembodied artificial intelligence (AI) systems such as large language models (LLMs) often receive elevated attributions of consciousness