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title: "Frog · Animals and other organisms · Entities · Simulation Hypothesis"
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description: "The 2024 New York Declaration says there's a realistic possibility of conscious experience in amphibians."
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[Entities](https://simulation-hypothesis.com/entities) › Animals and other organisms › Fish and amphibians

# Frog

Anura (e.g. Xenopus / Rana)

The 2024 New York Declaration says there's a realistic possibility of conscious experience in amphibians.

Neurons

No published count

## Evidence

* Amphibians are covered by the New York Declaration's 'realistic possibility' of conscious experience in all vertebrates.  
New York Declaration on Animal Consciousness (2024). https://sites.google.com/nyu.edu/nydeclaration/declaration.

The [New York Declaration on Animal Consciousness](https://sites.google.com/nyu.edu/nydeclaration/declaration) (2024) finds at least a realistic possibility of conscious experience in all vertebrates and in many invertebrates, including cephalopods, decapod crustaceans and insects.

Assess it against the published criteria