{"id":239014,"date":"2026-06-15T19:04:02","date_gmt":"2026-06-16T00:04:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/06\/we-may-be-surrounded-by-trillions-of-conscious-beings-research-suggests-and-they-arent-human"},"modified":"2026-06-15T19:04:02","modified_gmt":"2026-06-16T00:04:02","slug":"we-may-be-surrounded-by-trillions-of-conscious-beings-research-suggests-and-they-arent-human","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/06\/we-may-be-surrounded-by-trillions-of-conscious-beings-research-suggests-and-they-arent-human","title":{"rendered":"We May Be Surrounded by Trillions of Conscious Beings, Research Suggests\u2014And They Aren\u2019t Human"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/gBGt5OeAQFk?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>We might need to reconsider our position in the consciousness hierarchy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We might need to reconsider our position in the consciousness hierarchy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":662,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1506,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-239014","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-food","category-neuroscience"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/239014","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/662"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=239014"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/239014\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=239014"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=239014"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=239014"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}