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Anonymous04/05/26, 18:23No.5114217Tiny fish species possesses self-awareness
The bluestreak cleaner wrasse, a 10cm fish species that feeds off the dead skin of larger fish, has demonstrated the ability to recognize itself in a mirror -- a trait that is more so associated with birds and more intelligent mammals.
Scientific paper on this phenomenon:
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-024-70138-7
Video on the subject:
https://youtu.be/Drbl5udwk9I
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Anon04/05/26, 18:29No.5114221
Literally everything with a noticeably centralized brain is “self aware” no matter how conditioned they are to reflections. As in, it must know it exists to handle basic concepts like self grooming, property, territory, and more advanced navigation than bumping into things. At one point people became fond of this idea that animals are hilariously large compilations of if-then-else statements but its actually simpler, evolutionarily and biologically, for it to just know it exists and figure out how to serve its own needs.The number of small little retards like fish and ants passing the mirror test is a huge hint that everything bigger that failed it was actually self aware and either uninterested in touching/removing the spot or wasnt used to mirrors and had a stronger fear instinct overriding consideration.The real question is if they think about thinking or just know they exist
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Anon04/05/26, 21:01No.5114242
I wonder how many people are olfactory self-aware
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Anon04/05/26, 22:48No.5114283
My cat not only recognizes herself in the giant mirror next to her cat tree, but she also likes to look at it from different angles and spies on me with it.
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Anon04/06/26, 06:02No.5114401
You now remember 6yo children in africa failed to recognize their own reflections
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Anon04/10/26, 02:23No.5115415
This fish species is more intelligent than any cat
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Anon04/17/26, 03:14No.5116871
Wrasses (Labridae) in general are intelligent fishes
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Anon04/18/26, 01:52No.5117115
Fish possess consciousness. This has been proven repeatedly.
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Anon04/25/26, 07:11No.5119015
Why do chuds get so mad at the thought that fish are intelligent?
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Anon04/26/26, 13:09No.5119337
Fish were here before mammals and they will be here after mammals
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Anon04/30/26, 09:32No.5120484
People seething itt are just mad the fish passed the test while cats didn't
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Anon04/30/26, 18:35No.5120599
false flagging toxohead up above ^
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Anon05/02/26, 11:36No.5121160
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/these-tiny-fish-check-themselves-out-in-a-mirror-before-deciding-whether-to-fight-180985061/Bluestreak cleaner wrasse set up “cleaning stations” on the reefs, then wait for other fish to show up so they can eat the parasites. They also have good memories and can recognize more than 100 different “clients.”Last year, researchers also showed that bluestreak cleaner wrasse could recognize themselves in photos after looking at their reflection in a mirror.Scientists wanted to explore the bluestreak cleaner wrasse’s self-awareness on an even deeper level, so they set up a series of new experiments.In the first phase, researchers placed a bluestreak cleaner wrasse inside a clear fish tank. Then, they held photos against the glass showing bluestreak cleaner wrasses of varying sizes—some that were 10 percent larger than the fish in the tank, and some that were 10 percent smaller. No matter which photo the scientists showed, the bluestreak cleaner wrasse inside the tank tried to attack it.Next, the team repeated the same experiment but added a mirror to the tank. The fish checked out their own reflection before deciding whether to fight—and they would only battle photos of smaller intruders, not larger ones.To scientists, this suggests that bluestreak cleaner wrasse are capable of understanding their own body size, as well as how their body size stacks up against a rival.“This was unexpected because we had an image that this fish always shows aggression against rivals, regardless of size,” says study co-author Taiga Kobayashi.There are no mirrors in the wild, so the findings also suggest that cleaner wrasse adapted and learned to use the mirror as a self-preservation tool. This discovery can “help clarify the similarities between human and non-human animal self-awareness and provide important clues to elucidate how self-awareness has evolved."https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ujy9EmUzN4E
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Anon05/08/26, 06:06No.5122910
Anyone who pretends there is a cutoff for "sentience" is a midwit who wants to feel superior or abuse animals.Spiders, rats, birds, and other small insects can all have friendly relationships with humans. If you dont agree you're a retard.
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Anon05/08/26, 07:24No.5122920
The mirror test should have remained where it was designed: human children's mental developement progressIt is absolutely not a good measure of self awareness in animals. The cleaner wrasse's unique lifestyle where grooming has a special importance makes it "pass". Yes it is self aware and so are all fish. You realy need to do mental acrobatics to strip animals of conciousness.
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Anon05/08/26, 08:14No.5122930
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Anon05/09/26, 02:44No.5123169
Mammalcels SEETHING in this thread