Cute Elephants :p

This is rather late news. hehe but I was talking about elephants and self-recognition with my friends yesterday. This is an article from the bbc, which has shows the elephants and what the experiment shows

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/6100430.stm

I always felt self-recognition was a very important part of our humanity. I used to see some of the clients in the care home I work with hurting themselves, pinching, bitting. As the clients don't see much of themselves in a full-view mirror (mirrors might be a safety issue in the home), I always wondered if their self-injury behavior would be lesser if they looked at themselves in the mirror more. Pure conjecture on my side. :p

Hmmm slightly out of point again... but think J Lacan's mirror phase... Not too sure if he is a friend/ foe of Freud, but he is part of the Psycho-analysis movement. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacques_Lacan