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 OFFLINE | Animals don't respond to pictures of something. The cat will either treat the picture of a cat as a piece of cardboard to sit on or to shove with its paw, or else, if the cat does recognize the pictured cat, it will respond to it as to a real present cat. (There may or may not be some very few exceptions in chimpanzees and then only with human training. I don't insist that the human/animal division is a sharp line; it might be a gradation.) To respond to a picture as a picture is to live an aboutness. A picture is of something that need not be present. To respond to a picture is different than to behave at the object pictured as if it were present. |
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