Mind-Infrastructure🐀🤖 Rats preview paths, chimps bluff rivals, AI scores on empathy probes without empathyWhen a rat pauses at a maze junction, its brain cells fire in a sequence matching the paths it could take, simulating the future before it moves.Animals can experience regret. When they make a bad choice, their brain replays the better option they walked away from to update their future strategy.Chimps play complex mind games, like pretending not to see hidden food so a rival will not steal it.AI models can pass tests designed to measure human social awareness, even though they lack the brain circuits that actually understand other minds.📄 Read the article