So you're idea is that lots of living things innately perform this sort of skill, and that choosing to look at from a certain perspective lends the impression that it's a hallmark of intellectual distinction, simply because they're choosing to look at things the wrong way?
I think the idea is that it takes a bit more abstract symbolic thought to look at rival predators, then look at peers of the same species, and make eye contact and include a gesture that expresses a suggestion to stay hidden and keep quiet.
If I hop a fence, hide from the cops, and then unexpectedly find you in the same place, also hiding, then for me to hold up my finger over my lips would represent my recognition of you as a fellow peer on the run also threatened with arrest and jail.
That's a certain sort of interesting cognitive leap that I would not expect to see in most apes. If orangutans can do it, it's notable.
I suspect you might see something like this in squid or octopoda.
In bees, signaling dances aren't precisely the same kind of symbolic thought, because they don't have capacity to select what they dance about. It's a somewhat inflexible, robotic gambit of flowers, nectar, hive, honey, and nothing that deviates from the program, as complex as the program may be in its own right.
The only threat in the room that makes sense is the rogue, disgruntled amazon employee.
One might hypothesize government auditors and warrants compelling raw disk contents to be turned over for criminal prosecution, but that scenario supposes that a government entity would lack the creativity to imagine options like arresting the root login user, and jailing them until they enter the root account password to offer access to the encrypted data at rest.
I think the idea is that it takes a bit more abstract symbolic thought to look at rival predators, then look at peers of the same species, and make eye contact and include a gesture that expresses a suggestion to stay hidden and keep quiet.
If I hop a fence, hide from the cops, and then unexpectedly find you in the same place, also hiding, then for me to hold up my finger over my lips would represent my recognition of you as a fellow peer on the run also threatened with arrest and jail.
That's a certain sort of interesting cognitive leap that I would not expect to see in most apes. If orangutans can do it, it's notable.
I suspect you might see something like this in squid or octopoda.
In bees, signaling dances aren't precisely the same kind of symbolic thought, because they don't have capacity to select what they dance about. It's a somewhat inflexible, robotic gambit of flowers, nectar, hive, honey, and nothing that deviates from the program, as complex as the program may be in its own right.