... humans, are the only species capable of experiencing it. The presumption that animals have no mental life arises in part from the viewpoint outlined by Descartes famous statement "I think, therefore I am." The implications of this are that due to an awareness of your own mental life you can be positive that you exist, but, lacking the same evidence about anyone, or ... cannot recognise themselves in a mirror must lack self-awareness. Blind people for example, cannot recognise themselves in a mirror, yet nobody would argue that they are not self-aware, similarly people brought up in comm...

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