> *One day Chuang Tzu and a friend were walking by a river. "Look at the fish sw...

		PavlovsCat on Dec 14, 2018 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: A ‘Self-Aware’ Fish Raises Doubts About a Cognitiv... > One day Chuang Tzu and a friend were walking by a river. "Look at the fish swimming about," said Chuang Tzu, "They are really enjoying themselves." > "You are not a fish," replied the friend, "So you can't truly know that they are enjoying themselves." > "You are not me," said Chuang Tzu. "So how do you know that I do not know that the fish are enjoying themselves?"

That seems to depend on the phrasing of the friend's statement, along with ambiguity in the word "know".