06-02-2019, 07:57 PM
(06-02-2019, 04:11 PM)loostudent Wrote: Anyone heard of the mirror test? It's inventor is Gordon Gallup ...
Quote:What the mirror test shows, Gallup said, is self-awareness, which he defines as “the ability to become the object of your own attention.” And he believes this implies a certain rare intellect. Any animal that can recognize itself in a mirror, Gallup thinks, can potentially recognize that others have their own minds and even empathize with them. A sense of self means a sense of selves.
https://www.quantamagazine.org/a-self-aw...-20181212/
That's interesting because other humans are also our mirrors. Not just for studying the self but also for learning social awareness and love.
Which naturally entails a certain degree of separation. Self/ other-self, which in my opinion comes full circle to the "individual waves, in One ocean" view point or configuration. Where we/others are mysteriously some how One. Yet singular. Which in my opinion is the state of Infinity. not and is, is and not. All dancing together as one. Because honestly what is anything with out other? other to share with, to experience? What is anything worth without Love/Other?