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#649 - Anil Seth - Does Your Brain Hallucinate Conscious Reality?
Modern Wisdom
The Mirror Self Recognition Test on a Snake
I have actually no idea whether anyone's done the mirror self recognition test on a snake. I mean this is also part of the problem these experiments are quite hard to do and we've only studied a handful of species with any sophisticated animal. Many animals don't like to make eye contact and some don't like mirrors so they're just going to fail this test for reasons for other reasons. Even then you don't know how to interpret the real house. It will be impossible for us to experience being a bat unless you actually are a bat with the potential exception of not Batman but there's this few people who have developed so-called human co-location. People who've gone blind who were
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