<story><title>What Do Animals See in the Mirror?</title><url>https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2017/02/what-do-animals-see-in-the-mirror/516348/?single_page=true</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>lobster_johnson</author><text>One of the weirdest cognitive experiences in my life (as a drug non-user) was when I walked through a very crowded, dimly-lit bar and suddenly came face to face with a person who, when I tried to pass him, kept moving to the same side that I tried to pass on. It took me probably 3 seconds to realize it was a mirror and that I was trying to pass myself (meanwhile, one of the employees who was sitting next to the mirror was giggling loudly while profusely apologizing for doing so; not my proudest moment).&lt;p&gt;The cognitive weirdness was that during those 3-4 seconds, I genuinely did not recognize the person as being myself. It was a kind of out-of-body experience.</text></comment>
<story><title>What Do Animals See in the Mirror?</title><url>https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2017/02/what-do-animals-see-in-the-mirror/516348/?single_page=true</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>mrec</author><text>There was a distinctly unsettling paper[1] a couple of years ago which found evidence that &lt;i&gt;ants&lt;/i&gt; could recognize themselves in a mirror, which is &lt;i&gt;really&lt;/i&gt; not a result you&amp;#x27;d expect from something (ab)used as a &amp;quot;sentience test&amp;quot;. I&amp;#x27;ve seen very little followup on this; does anyone know how it&amp;#x27;s been received?&lt;p&gt;[1] &lt;a href=&quot;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.journalofscience.net&amp;#x2F;File_Folder&amp;#x2F;521-532(jos).pdf&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.journalofscience.net&amp;#x2F;File_Folder&amp;#x2F;521-532(jos).pdf&lt;/a&gt;</text></comment>