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To: one_less who wrote (65989)	5/16/2006 5:51:12 PM
From: jttmab	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 173976

Odd to me how you can find the overwhelming evidence for human self awareness to be suspect but have no problem making such a claim for another species. That's not where I am. There may be a test that demonstrates how a dog is self aware but I haven't heard about it. What is the difference between self-awareness and Cogito, ergo sum? Are they equivalent. Does one prove the existance of the other? If I think am I self-aware and if I am self-aware do I think? jttmab

To: one_less who wrote (65989)	5/16/2006 5:51:20 PM
From: TigerPaw	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 173976

There may be a test that demonstrates how a dog is self aware but I haven't heard about it en.wikipedia.org The test gauges self-awareness by determining whether an animal can recognize its own reflection in a mirror as an image of itself. This is accomplished by surreptitiously marking the animal with an odourless dye, and observing whether the animal reacts in a manner consistent with it being aware that the dye is located on its own body. dsc.discovery.com A new robot can recognize the difference between a mirror image of itself and another robot that looks just like it.