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Comment author: philh 18 February 2016 10:16:25AM 0 points [-]

i.e. dogs who can see their reflection but don't process more than about an hour of time into the past.

Are you talking about an actual example, or a hypothetical one? Taken literally, such a dog would be untrainable - is there a specific type of processing you had in mind, that we'd be able to verify how far back dogs are doing it?

(Also, I thought dogs failed the mirror test?)

Comment author: Elo 18 February 2016 10:42:18AM 0 points [-]

failed the mirror test?

not sure which direction a fail is. I might have my details wrong.

don't process more than about an hour of time into the past.

talking about dogs that you can take away from their owner from an hour; a day; or a week and then return the owner and they act the same. have no concept of time that away.