Ce dossier a préalablement été publié par l’Inra sur son site : http://institut.Inra.fr/Missions/Eclairer-les-decisions/Expertises/Toutes-les-actualites/Conscience-animaleThis paper presents the outcome of a scientific multidisciplinary assessment on animal consciousness carried out by Inra from 2015 to 2017. The experts, produced in a 169 pages report in English, an exhaustive analysis of the scientific and philosophical knowledge available in the international literature. It first describes the knowledge about humans in which the concepts and tools describing consciousness have been developed. The available data on animals are much less numerous, but they make it possible to draw firm conclusions, even if they still require more data. Mos...