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Study suggests chimpanzees are self aware

Noaidi

Noaidi

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painted wolf said:
If they had been studying the mechanism, they would have been talking about the features of the brain that activated, neuron function, neurochemistry and so on. Mechanisms are the biological processes behind the behavior.

Sorry to pick nits, but it is an important distinction. :cool:

wa:do
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Point taken. I only have access to the abstract, which concludes: "These findings indicate that chimpanzees and humans share the fundamental cognitive processes underlying the sense of being an independent agent.", and I assumed that neurological similarities between chimps and humans would be discussed.

The perception of self-agency in chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes)

Consider my nits well and truly picked! :D
 
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