Dogs are perhaps an ambiguous case. They do not pass the mirror test for self-awareness, although there may be other reasons for this.
But they do have pack politics, which according to the Machiavellian theory of intelligence, is a strong indicator of self-awareness. Cheers On Sun, Jun 25, 2006 at 11:35:42PM -0400, Phil Henshaw wrote: > Dogs too. Some are emotional ditzes, and some real crafty. You can > see a whole range of their awarenesses and levels of intention on any > street corner, well maybe if you let what they do be a little > suggestive. How else are you supposed to know what's going on inside > other things that obviously are not controlled from the outside? Some > pull the dodge that there's really nothing with an inside since we can't > make rules about anything except information and we have none. QED? > (but maybe it's ambiguous which way) > > > > > Phil Henshaw ¸¸¸¸.·´ ¯ `·.¸¸¸¸ > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ > 680 Ft. Washington Ave > NY NY 10040 > tel: 212-795-4844 > e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > explorations: www.synapse9.com > > > > ============================================================ > FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv > Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College > lectures, archives, unsubscribe, maps at http://www.friam.org -- *PS: A number of people ask me about the attachment to my email, which is of type "application/pgp-signature". Don't worry, it is not a virus. It is an electronic signature, that may be used to verify this email came from me if you have PGP or GPG installed. Otherwise, you may safely ignore this attachment. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- A/Prof Russell Standish Phone 8308 3119 (mobile) Mathematics 0425 253119 (") UNSW SYDNEY 2052 [EMAIL PROTECTED] Australia http://parallel.hpc.unsw.edu.au/rks International prefix +612, Interstate prefix 02 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ============================================================ FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College lectures, archives, unsubscribe, maps at http://www.friam.org
