Episode 18 — What Is It Like to Be Another Animal?

What does the world feel like from inside another animal’s mind?

We travel through a decade of animal-consciousness research: optimistic bees, laughing rats, grieving dogs, extraordinary octopuses and the growing scientific recognition that subjective experience may extend much further across the animal kingdom than we once assumed.

Science still cannot tell us exactly what another animal experiences — but it is becoming increasingly difficult to assume that nobody is home.