Many mammals don’t pass the mirror self-recognition test, including dogs. But I suspect dogs have an olfactory form of self-recognition. You notice that dogs smell other dog’s poop a lot, but they don’t smell their own so much. So they probably have some sense of their own smell, a primitive form of self-consciousness. aaa... beauty of scientific example... but dogs have extremely sensitive nose, millions times better than ours, so perhaps they have millions times better and bigger thoughts and conscious processes about real and virtual chemical space. They could build some kind of representative consciouses in chemical gradient space in which one can`t define borders of objects so precisely, or even map them to our objects. Their mind (if any) exists in completely different world. And rest of reality (that we think consciously of) is perhaps just worth... barking
Posted on: Wed, 20 Nov 2013 08:33:47 +0000
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