This could be checked giving a pinprick to someone in a coma while scanning their brain. (And I’m being generous and not assuming a definition of consciousness which excludes healthy people in deep dreamless sleep, because if perception entailed consciousness in that sense, alarm clocks would work much less reliably.)
A definition of perception according to which insects have it doesn’t sound too weird to me.
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This could be checked giving a pinprick to someone in a coma while scanning their brain. (And I’m being generous and not assuming a definition of consciousness which excludes healthy people in deep dreamless sleep, because if perception entailed consciousness in that sense, alarm clocks would work much less reliably.)