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Originally Posted by tompe
Well I have read a bit about this question and if you look carefully at most examples given you see that there are alternative explanations that is as good or better than the explanation that the animal have a mental model of the world including the concept of time.
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An in many cases we either dont know or there are facts that hint into one of both directions. I agree that we dont have any evidence regarding mental capacities of animals - but nor do we have any for human (at least not if you state that "pure reactions" on input is not a mental capacity). We dont even know whether there is something called "free will"
(not that there is any significance to this question - whether you "have to" decide in the way that you do - and only believe that you decided freely - or you really decide freely changes not a single outcome).