A bee finding its way home is like my phone GPS plotting the way back. My phone doesn't "feel" or "experience" being lost. It just does what it's built to do.

Calling consciousness experiencing things to then apply it to everything just feels like a rebrand to make it fit. An interesting read, but until we can accurately measure how to perform a test on a rock to see if it experiences anything, I don't think it has a good scientific basis.

Like, how can we ignore awareness of self? A dog can experience pain from an infected tooth, but it can't theorize as to why it happened. Sure, there can be evolutionary traits or learned behaviour, but it's not aware of the bigger picture. They are always just "in the moment" and act on internal and external stimuli.