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.)
No, it’s implicit the way it is.
Perception entails consciousness, unless you have a weird definition of perception.
Look up blindsight. Perception without conscious processing.
A definition of perception according to which insects have it doesn’t sound too weird to me.
There.
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.)