Re: [Phys-l] [tap-l] reflections

[Bernard Cleyet <bernardcleyet@redshift.com>]

"The mirror test is considered to be one of the important tests of
intelligence or more properly self awareness.  


"According to one article children pass it at 3 to 4."


That's the argument I use to classify kindercide (kindertoten?) not as murder.  

bc



John Clement wrote:

> The mirror test is considered to be one of the important tests of
> intelligence or more properly self awareness.  So far to my knowledge only
> dolphins and some primates have passed it.  I seem to recall that chimps may
> also have passed it.  Another very intelligent species that might pass it is
> surprisingly the octopus.  There are also a few bird species that might pass
> it.  According to one article children pass it at 3 to 4.
>
> There was a science fiction where the protagonists were put into a cage by
> aliens.  The aliens only recongnized the humans as intelligent when the
> humans acquired a pet mouse (as I recall).  So the pet test has also been
> proposed as a test of intelligence.
>
> John M. Clement
> Houston, TX
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>
> > Perhaps it is not intelligence that animals lack, but a sense of vanity.
> >
> >    
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