Western Scrub Jays Are Capable of Metacognition - Scientific American - 0 views
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The ability to identify the state of your knowledge—thinking about thinking—is known as metacognition. It is hard to tell whether other animals are also capable of metacognition because we cannot ask them; studies of primates and birds have not yet been able to rule out simpler explanations for this complex process.
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Scientists know, however, that some animals, such as western scrub jays, can plan for the future
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Although this experiment did not directly test consciousness, the findings are exciting because they provide further evidence that humans are not the only species with the ability to think about their thought processes.