There exist degrees of consciousness. Ex pain scale from 1 - 10.I  used degrees of Consciousness scale of 1 - 360 degrees aka unitary.
Most logicalcommon sense critical thinking people will argue that, a nervoussystem --ergo animal kingdom--- is require for consciousness. Idisagree. It is about how we define consciousness and morespecifically in its complexity aspects. However, the ability toaccess Meta-space mind/intellect/concepts and ego/i appears to besynergetically, the most complex.
Consciousness requires at minimum a two-ness/otherness. Observer o and o  the observed. This two-ness inherently requires a 3rd aspect and that is a
line-of-relationship of observation Ex o------o and that can be any of the following below.
8 } +360+ {  most complex  is woman { X x } with man { X y } close 2nd.
....8a} a line-of-relationship assight { narrow band of visual frequency EMRadiation  }, 
.....8b} smell Olfactory...7 primary smells...},
......8c}  touch { tactile },
.......8d} hearing {auditory ...vibrating air molecules },
........8e} taste { gustration...5 primary tastes.. }.
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7 }{ Infrared {far-mid-short/near }  ---vipers sense frequency of infra-red {far-mid-short } long low energy ..." Infrared signals are initially received by the pit organ, a highly specialized facial structure that is innervated by nerve fibers of the somatosensorysystem..... How this organ detects and transduces infrared signalsinto nerve impulses is not known."...
------------.."The atoms in a CH2 group, commonly found in organic compounds, can vibrate in six different ways: symmetric and antisymmetric stretching, scissoring, rocking, wagging and twisting: "....
------ magnetic..."birds, frogs, sea turtles, honey bees, salamanders, lobsters, dolphins, rodents"
----- ex "Scientists believe that salmon navigate by using the earth’ smagnetic field like a compass."-----
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				} +260 - ( fair or not.= I give some cetaceans this extra + in their degree of abstract complexity
} -260- { Here list of ten smartest animals according to "AZ Animals web siteand we unfairly or not we will give all of these bilateral animals a scale in degrees of consciousness complexity a}-200-{
...." Orangutansand chimps are some of the smartest animals. Orangutans share 97%of their DNA with humans, and both primates use tools and shelter,with complex ritualistic social structures and some rudimentary language skills.
- Scary smart bottle nose dolphins	can switch back and forth between specialized and generalized	languages. They’ve also been observed communicating and	cooperating with other species.	
 - African Grey Parrots learn huge	vocabularies and understand shapes, colors, spatial reasoning, and	relational concepts.	
 - '...https://a-z-animals.com/blog/the-10-smartest-animals-in-the-world/