Let's go back to the scenario: > The parrot sees a green key, and a green cup, and answers "color" to "what's same?" and "shape" to "what's different". For al

Let's go back to the scenario: > The parrot sees a green key, and a green cup, and answers "color" to "what's same?" and "shape" to "what's different". For all I know, the parrot recognizes both objects having the same color, and I assume that "shape" means nothing more than "equality" and does not imply attribution of concept or quality, until the parrot can also tell the difference between for example something wet and something dry. In my skepticism, the only meaningful ability of the parrot is to say out loud if the color matches. Which, IMHO, does not imply as much as you say. There must definitely be some internal model of the world for this to happen. You might be right when you say that there is attribution of quality, concepts, objects, and they share qualities - but I remain skeptic. For instance, an ant will recognize a sugar and react to it, and react differently to for ex. something noxious, but we know that ants are not capable of any complex internal models. All in all, TY for the reply!