What Do Animals See in a Mirror? - Issue 47: Consciousness
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The idea for a tool to probe the basis of consciousness came to Gordon G. Gallup, Jr. while shaving. “It just occurred to me,” he says, “wouldn’t it be interesting to see if other creatures could recognize themselves in mirrors?” [NB|▻https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr?cmd=_s-xclick&hosted_button_id=RR4M62C9V2898|http://static.nautil.us/12129_37160db944a57234ac9bf1ea9e99ae58.png|http://static.nautil.us/12130_8a2bd3e7515b99c88006a6956bc284e9.png]Showing chimpanzees their reflections seemed like a fascinating little experiment when he first tried it in the summer of 1969. He didn’t imagine that this would become one of the most influential—and most controversial—tests in comparative psychology, ushering the mind into the realm of experimental science and foreshadowing questions on the depth (...)
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