[MD] Collective intelligence

[craigerb at comcast.net]

[Craig, previously] 
> I've been holding my 2 female cats up to the mirror to see if they show any 
> signs of self-recognition. One seems either uninterested or uncomfortable. 
> The other is sometimes interested in looking at herself, at other times 
> looks at me in the mirror. Similar results if I hold them both up together. 
> Craig 

[Micah] 
> It that really what the cats told you? Did they tell you they were looking 
> at a reflection or do they think they are looking at themselves and you? I 
> would be very interested in what they think, and not what you think for 
> them. 

I'm surprised you ask what my cats told me.  I would have thought that your position is that cats can't tell me anything.  You have raised the interesting question: are my cats looking at a reflection or themselves (and/or me)?  In any event I do not "think for them".
Craig