I dont know if this is technicly correct but I define selfawareness as a ability to problem solve, to have emotions (moods) and and as a ability to think on both a subconsuse (spelling) and consuse level (dreaming and spontainus actions indercates this). (As far as I know mice, rats and rabbits)
But your right... We should not do realy try to proserve ourselfs through these experiments that may kill animals if we are killing our only planet from our over population... But thats a different issue that can be solved in ways other then letting ourselfs die unesserserally. Like you said we could all adopt the one child pur famly law untill we reach a population level that is only a fraction of what it is. And I agree with that... Its a grate idear... or even one child pur parent would be anuff.
By the way I think that if the mice, rats and rabbits where selfaware then would be thankfull to have lived and have been in a experiment (there not nesserserally painfull) then to never live at all.
