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Recent decades have seen a flourishing of scholarship on wellbeing. Looking ahead, the next frontier may be engaging with the possibility of  non -human forms of wellbeing. This paper reviews various candidates for what these forms may be, focusing on entities that are living and potentially capable of conscious experience. However, what makes this topic so complex and fascinating is that what exactly constitutes life or conscious experience is not self-evident. Thus, this paper considers various potential life forms – which vary in the extent to which they challenge standard conceptions of life – including organic life forms on earth, matter, AI, and extra-terrestrial beings. Some possibilities are unlikelier and more speculative than others, but all have arguably a non-zero probability, so merit at least  some  consideration and attention. Moreover, these possibilities have considerable relevance for  human  wellbeing, and so warrant the attention of wellbeing scholars.

Stranger than we can imagine: the possibility and potential significance of non-human forms of consciousness and wellbeing