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Self awareness not exclusive to humans
If you think humans are the only animal capable of self-awareness, think again. A study strongly suggests that self-awareness is not unique to mankind and is instead likely to be common among animals. The study found that humans and other animals capable of mentally simulating environments require at least a primitive sense of self.
London: If you think humans are the only animal capable of self-awareness, think again. A study strongly suggests that self-awareness is not unique to mankind and is instead likely to be common among animals. The study found that humans and other animals capable of mentally simulating environments require at least a primitive sense of self.
"The study's key insight is that those animals capable of simulating their future actions must be able to distinguish between their imagined actions and the actions that are actually experienced," said co-author professor Thomas Hills from University of Warwick's department of psychology.
The study appeared in the journal Current Zoology and the researchers were inspired by work conducted in the 1950s on maze navigation in rats. It was found that rats in the maze took a pause to make decisions on what they would do next.
Recent neuroscience research found that at these 'choice points' rats activate regions of their hippocampus that simulates choices and their potential outcomes.
