On Tue, 06 Sep 2005 18:34:42 -0400, Logic316 wrote:

David,
you need to stop looking for fights and to get a formal education - your
lack of comprehension of the most basic scientific procedures and
established philosophical principles makes you unqualified to adequately
handle any debate about consciousness, self-awareness, or experiments
measuring animal intelligence in general.

- Logic316

The mirror test shows an individual's ability to understand reflection.
If an animal never understands that a mirror can show a reflection of
itself, that doesn't mean that it has no concept of itself. It simply means
that is doesn't have a mental concept of a reflection of itself...it always
believes the reflection is of a different being. I would certainly agree it
shows they don't have self recognition, but that doesn't mean they have
no concept of themselves. There are things to indicate that they do,
but as yet I've seen nothing to indicate that they don't.