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    It is not the case that Dogs possess some form of olfactory self-recognition

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    • 1.Differential attention to stimuli can be fully explained by habituation to familiar odors without invoking any representational self-model.
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    • 2.Gordon Gallup's criterion for self-recognition requires an animal to use information about its own body to modify self-directed behavior, which olfactory sniff-duration data does not demonstrate.
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    • 1.Self-recognition minimally requires that an organism represent the stimulus as 'mine' rather than merely as 'familiar,' a distinction Bermúdez argues requires higher-order conceptual capacities.
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    • 2.Dogs lack the neocortical architecture associated with episodic self-modeling, making a genuine first-person indexical representation of self-produced odors neurophysiologically implausible.
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    • 1.Dogs presented with urine samples from themselves and other dogs spend less time sniffing their own urine marks
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    • 2.Differential attention to self-produced versus other-produced stimuli indicates self-recognition
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