Comment by DangitBobby
9 hours ago
It's interesting, but the explanation seems to exclude the possibility that my dog has some sense of self, so I find it suspect.
9 hours ago
It's interesting, but the explanation seems to exclude the possibility that my dog has some sense of self, so I find it suspect.
Don't dogs have similar social issues?
I'm not saying that they don't have some internal self model that helps them model the internal states of others, quite the opposite. I am saying this specific explanation seems to lean on a biological mechanism that (at least by the phrasing of the linked article) is only present in "hominids".