sicadelicbearkang
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Many animals predominant sense isn't sight. Dogs for example, recognize others(and themselves) by scent. They arent fine tuned into sight as we are.
If someone asked you to recognize your own scent to prove youre self aware, would you be able to do so?
The mirror test is just another sign of mankind letting their ego get in the way of truth, assuming everything is the same for other creatures as it is for humans. Noone considered their pov/brain differences enough to consider they could be self aware, just in a different way, due to vastly different perception. The more i think about the mirror test, and how its considered THE test for self awareness in animals, really makes me wonder how deep of thinkers most people really are, actually accepting those results as the truth.
We demean animals into being lesser creatures to such a degree out of ignorance and stupidity, or a subconscious need to prove we are something special, having evolved to be something completely separate from the animal kingdom, or to justify our position of superiority. A lot of animals are very self aware and they just express it and show it in ways that most humans cant comprehend, or are too self absorbed to want to comprehend.
Has anyone else considered/ looked into this?
If someone asked you to recognize your own scent to prove youre self aware, would you be able to do so?
The mirror test is just another sign of mankind letting their ego get in the way of truth, assuming everything is the same for other creatures as it is for humans. Noone considered their pov/brain differences enough to consider they could be self aware, just in a different way, due to vastly different perception. The more i think about the mirror test, and how its considered THE test for self awareness in animals, really makes me wonder how deep of thinkers most people really are, actually accepting those results as the truth.
We demean animals into being lesser creatures to such a degree out of ignorance and stupidity, or a subconscious need to prove we are something special, having evolved to be something completely separate from the animal kingdom, or to justify our position of superiority. A lot of animals are very self aware and they just express it and show it in ways that most humans cant comprehend, or are too self absorbed to want to comprehend.
Has anyone else considered/ looked into this?