[ExI] puzzle - animal consciousness

[Adrian Tymes]

On May 19, 2014 3:25 PM, "William Flynn Wallace" <foozler83 at gmail.com>
wrote:
> There are three roads and the dog's master has gone down one of them.
The dog sniffs along two of them, finding no scent of his master, and so,
without sniffing (!), takes the third.  Did he think?
>
> IMO:  flawed puzzle.  A dog simply would not do this.

Agreed.  If nothing else, the dog must consider the possibility that, just
like the dog would, the master may have gone off into the woods (or
whatever the local non-road terrain is).
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