Clever Creatures
The Infinite Monkey Cage
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Does an Animal Have a Self Awareness?
One of the classic tests to try and figure out if an animal has a sense of self awareness is the mirror test. Nown it's a facet of perhaps towards something a bit bigger, like consciousness. But you can put a spot in the front of a dolphin, and it will swim around in front of the mirror. Is it checking itself out, going, oh, that's a bit different n word? And they've just done this with fish atually. So maybe theysoe, you can't see how the mirror test could translate, but lots of other things. You do have to be a bit more specific.
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