Re: Animals 'Can Think About Thought'

"pearl" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
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> Animals 'Can Think About Thought'
> By Tim Radford
> Science Editor
> The Guardian - UK
> 12-3-3
>
> Monkeys can manage mathematics. Dolphins can be decisive.
> But US psychologists have broken new ground in the animal
> intelligence challenge. They have proved that animals are also
> smart enough to join the "don't-knows".
>
> It means that animals, like humans, may be capable not just of
> thinking, but of thinking about thinking, of knowing that they
> don't know. Psychologists call this "metacognition", evidence
> of sophisticated cognitive self-awareness. Ordinary mortals
> know it as "dithering".
> ......
> http://www.guardian.co.uk/animalrights/story/0,11917,1098467,00.html

That's the study I posted about earlier.

-Rubystars