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For a second, I thought "maybe they indicate which bits of the braille are relevant" and then I took a long walk and thought about my life choices.

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The audio cuts out on one side, and when I lightly touch the headband it comes back again. I think it's the self-muting thing, and whatever triggers it has worn out and become a bit unpredictable.

I've never needed or wanted this function, so even if my issue isn't that, I'd still be curious if there's a way to disable it.

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And does this negate the "mirror test" idea? That is, an animal failing to recognise that the creature in the mirror is themselves, but can recognise themselves in water, shows that their problem isn't with the concept of reflectivity or "self", but something about the mirror's version of themselves that they can't quite grasp?

A follow-up question: Does an animal recognise its own shadow, and does this count as a kind of "self-awareness" when their shadow is moving around in the world but they don't lose their mind over it?

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As I understand it - which is not at all - the pyramid complex in Giza was always next to a bustling inhabited city, but the complex itself seemingly went ignored/untouched for centuries. Same goes for famous Roman sites. Why were these objects and sites not reused or maintained or destroyed until relatively recently? Where did everyone go, and why weren't they living in and around these structures this whole time? And if they were, why didn't they do anything with the sites?

I understand that empires and civilisations come to an end, but they aren't the result of wholesale genocide, and even if they were, the genociders would surely move into that area next and continue living in the pre-built cities and towns. But that doesn't seem to be what happened.

Why is humanity out of the picture in these monumental and impressive sites for unbroken periods of deep time?

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Dogs especially have an insane superpower of a nose, they surely smell the fear and even just regular body odour of all the previous animals who've come through there in the last week. I don't know if the cleaning protocol of even the most fastidiously-hygienic clinics could get rid of that 'doggy Holocaust train' smell. It puts me in mind of my own struggles with autistic sensory overload. It must be the equivalent of someone like me being walked through a door and out onto the stage at Wembley Stadium without anyone telling me what was about to happen. At least in my case, I'd see the crowd, whereas the dog only smells the ghosts of animals past and has to imagine what might have caused their pheromone bukakke.

The same goes for the vet/groomer themselves; they surely emit the screaming echos of slaughterhouse stank like a pealing church bell every second of the day. They are absorbing pure animal terror into their clothes and onto their skin like an adrenochrome-fiending Clinton.