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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
E-Mail
cas@cas.illinois.edu
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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. 

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