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I agree with you but I live around chickens. They feel like the worst example. I might be wrong but they seem dumb as hell to me lol. Almost like they are driven fully by instinct from thing to thing.

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I was thinking it’s one of the better examples because even if they’re really dumb and brains the size of peas they have personalities and there is something (even if it’s not much) going on up there.

Basically it feels like something to be a chicken, there’s a subjective chicken conscious experience.

If you have a mole on your foot they will peck at it because they think it's a bug. The fact that it isn't doesn't seem to stop them next time. If we're talking about intelligence of farm animals, they have to be down the bottom.

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