>>11155702>Evidence.https://youtu.be/akE2Sgg8hI8Cat sees itself in mirror. Touches self. Recognizes self. That different individuals in one species can recognize themselves in the mirror and others can not by itself makes the concept of dubious meaning.
> No it's not.Yes it is. There is no animal in the world that can’t recognize itself, or it wouldn’t be able to fucking walk. The flawed premise of the mirror test originates in the fact that sight is the dominant sense of humans, even more than hearing, so we impose this onto other creatures. In reality, smell and hearing are common dominant or very important senses in many other animals. Dogs are able to recognize their own scent markings, which they use to delineate territory and make their presence known to other dogs, so they have self-recognition. They can also scratch themselves, which means they can recognize the sensation of their own claws on their own bodies, so they have self-recognition, meaning there’s few if any bilaterian animals alive that don’t possess self-recognition. You assign undue significance to the sense of sight because it is the dominant sense for you. There’s little else to it.
