SCIENCE: Disputed signs of consciousness seen in babies’ brains. “Babies’ brains emit electrical bursts that signal a budding awareness of the visual world by the time they are 5 months old, a new study concludes. But some researchers are skeptical that these neural surges correspond to conscious experience.”

Of course they do. My daughter started talking at 6 months, as did I. If you’re talking at 6 months, there’s consciousness at 5.