Self-Recognition and Self-Awareness in Animals: Complications and Reflections
- Event Type
- Lecture
- Sponsor
- Center for Advanced Study, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
- Location
- Levis Faculty Center, Room 210
- Date
- Jul 10, 2023 2:00 pm
- Speaker
- ROBERT MITCHELL
- Contact
- Heidy Barcus
- cas@cas.illinois.edu
- Views
- 83
- Originating Calendar
- Center for Advanced Study
A variety of measures have examined whether animals have selves, and what kinds of selves they might be. The most commonly mentioned measures are tests involving mirror self-recognition. Professor Mitchell will discuss the various animals that have been tested via mirrors as well as other measures of the self in animals, focusing on the sensorial basis of self-perception. The findings from various tests of self-recognition and self-awareness are more complicated than their usual presentation indicates, and he hopes to engage listeners with these complications.