A ‘Self-Aware’ Fish Raises Doubts About a Cognitive Test
The ink-dot and mirror &quot;self-awareness&quot; always sounded ridiculous to me. Isn&#x27;t it obvious that a self-aware creature does not necessarily has to care about their appearance and can ignore the dot and that a creature driven by instincts and reflexes only can be programmed to maintain their skin color pattern (as the species has developed the pattern for a reason)? I would rather believe it might be self-aware if the same creature would remove the dot some times, would do it later every now and then and would ignore it occasionally.<p>In fact I even doubt every human is consciously self-aware, a huge number of people probably live their lives the way we see dreams. So many people have no doubts their bare feelings and judgments are the reality e.g. believing the fact they&#x27;re upset means a counterpart has done something really wrong and&#x2F;or hates them while in fact they might just have not slept well or followed a bad diet...