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pragmatist comments on Open Thread, October 7 - October 12, 2013 - Less Wrong Discussion

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Comment author: David_Gerard 13 October 2013 10:44:54AM 2 points [-]

An anecdote on a cat that sort of passes a version of the Mirror Test. Interesting comment suggesting the mirror test is too human-centric: "Perhaps the difference in outcome is because touching your cat is a movement, which she can see in the mirror and expect; while the spot on fur is background, since it doesn’t move. This would be consistent with the tendency of hunting animals to track motion against a largely ignored background. "