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Hello and welcome! My name is Anton and in this video, we will talk about an interesting discovery of awareness and consciousness in a tiny fish
Links:
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Other videos:
youtu.be/JHJXqWGPsFE
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0:00 Fish intelligence? The story of cleaner wrasse
2:05 What is self-awareness? Mirror test
4:25 The fish aced the test!
5:50 Contingency testing - sign of complex intelligence
7:20 Here is probably why they are so smart - cheating test
9:20 Other smart fish
11:25 Here is why this is important
13:20 Conclusions
#fish #intelligence #biology
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Hello and welcome! My name is Anton and in this video, we will talk about an interesting discovery of awareness and consciousness in a tiny fish
Links:
nature.com/articles/s41598-025-25837-0?error=server_error
Other videos:
youtu.be/JHJXqWGPsFE
youtu.be/aI6hGYFiIk4
youtu.be/-Tcdpph1ahg
0:00 Fish intelligence? The story of cleaner wrasse
2:05 What is self-awareness? Mirror test
4:25 The fish aced the test!
5:50 Contingency testing - sign of complex intelligence
7:20 Here is probably why they are so smart - cheating test
9:20 Other smart fish
11:25 Here is why this is important
13:20 Conclusions
#fish #intelligence #biology
Enjoy and please subscribe
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The hardware used to record these videos:
New Camera: amzn.to/4pCVINS
CPU: amzn.to/4qXIaxC
Video Card: amzn.to/2M1W26C
Motherboard: amzn.to/2JYGiQQ
RAM: amzn.to/2Mwy2t4
PSU: amzn.to/2LZcrIH
Case: amzn.to/2MwJZz4
Microphone: amzn.to/2t5jTv0
Mixer: amzn.to/2JOL0oF
Recording and Editing: amzn.to/2LX6uvU
Some of the above are affiliate links, meaning I would get a (very small) percentage of the price paid.
Thank you to all Patreon supporters of this channel
Special thanks also goes to all the wonderful supporters of the channel through YouTube Memberships
Credit:
Mark Garlick markgarlick.com
Diego Delso CC BY sA 4.0 en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bluestreak_cleaner_wrasse#/media/File:Lábrido_limpiador_común_(Labroides_dimidiatus),_mar_Rojo,_Egipto,_2023-04-17,_DD_90.jpg
Izuzuki CC BY SA 2.5 en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bluestreak_cleaner_wrasse#/media/File:NiseKGP.jpg
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bluestreak_cleaner_wrasse#/media/File:Labroides_dimidiatus_courtship_(cropped).jpg
Alexander Vasenin CC BY sa 3.0 en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bluestreak_cleaner_wrasse#/media/File:Cleaner_wrasse_with_a_client.JPG
Silke Baron CC BY 2.0 en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bluestreak_cleaner_wrasse#/media/File:Giant_Moray_Eel_getting_cleaned.jpg
roseoftimothywoods - flickr.com/photos/madfox/29367611 CC BY 2.0
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