A Fish Passes The Self-Recognition Mirror Test. Uncertainty As To What This Means.

Various kinds of animals pass it, e.g. dolphins and giant oceanic manta rays. However, humans are the only species that shows embarrassment in front of a mirror (form toddler age onward), so only humans can imagine being judged when seen and can infer a vulnerability from that. These are two substantially different kinds of self-awareness, one being merely egocentric while the other one is sociocontextual. The latter requires a large amount of model capacity to model other people's minds which are notoriously difficult to model even though evolution has made us to certain degree predictable (e.g. we punish ourselves for breaking norms and we are bad at maintaining secrets as that makes us nervous and other people then become suspicious…).

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