Amoeba, Fish, or Homosapien
For the past week that I've had friend's fish to take care of, I'd be lying if I said I didn't wish I was a fish countless times. It seemed too damn easy. Living commitment-free, I guess. But then I started noticing that whenever I hold something "green" near his bowl it comes near it excitingly, because his food container is green. I don't know much about cognitive functioning in fish, but I know it is pretty simple given that fish are evolutionary most primitive among vertebrates. However, the fish is displaying "classical conditioning" so it does have "some" level of complex cognitive circuiting. This, and many other behaviors I have been observing, is no scientific solid proof of any fish consciousness, but it is an indicator that something is there. And then I started trying to view things through his perspective, a fish's perspective. Now this, at first, sounds easy but as you actually try it, really is a mind-fucke