[bambax]

Of course. This is extremely annoying, esp. now that the Internets are choke-full of counter examples. Descartes wrote many stupid things about animals being "automatons", but at least he had the excuse of living in a pre-Youtube erra.

> When placing a glass on the edge of a table, for example, we will likely pause to consider how stable it is and whether it might fall. On the basis of that imagined consequence we might readjust the glass to prevent it from falling and breaking.

Or, if you're a cat, you might push it over the edge for the fun of it:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RI1rv3re7as

In fact, the cat in this video appears to have more imagination than the paper's authors.