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DurhamDawg
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That depends on how you define "intelligent." I think most animal species on earth are pretty damned intelligent. It's arrogant of humans to think that we're the only intelligent animals. Lots of other animal species use tools, build structures, have complex systems of communication, have complex social interactions, exhibit altruistic behavior, engage in planning for the future, and so on. The more we learn about other animals, the harder it is for humans to come up with some unique thing that makes us better than they are.
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Qubilai
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| Posted: Fri Jun 13, 2008 3:29 am Post subject: |
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| DurhamDawg wrote: | | The more we learn about other animals, the harder it is for humans to come up with some unique thing that makes us better than they are. |
We invented beer. |
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DurhamDawg
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| Posted: Fri Jun 13, 2008 3:34 am Post subject: |
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| Qubilai wrote: | | DurhamDawg wrote: | | The more we learn about other animals, the harder it is for humans to come up with some unique thing that makes us better than they are. |
We invented beer. |
okay... but some species of animals get drunk on rotten fruit, so that's not really so unique....
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quiscalus
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| Posted: Fri Jun 13, 2008 3:40 am Post subject: Re: Human arrogance: |
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| Quote: | If the universe is spatially infinite, and the uniform and finite properties of matter hold, then there is an exact duplicate of yourself about 10^10^29 meters from here. And in between here and there would be every conceivable form of life.
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You big show-off, you.
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Qubilai
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| Posted: Fri Jun 13, 2008 4:10 am Post subject: Re: Human arrogance: |
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| quiscalus wrote: | | Quote: | If the universe is spatially infinite, and the uniform and finite properties of matter hold, then there is an exact duplicate of yourself about 10^10^29 meters from here. And in between here and there would be every conceivable form of life.
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You big show-off, you. |
Naw. I just stole it from Max Tegmark.
http://space.mit.edu/home/tegmark/toe_frames.html |
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ReasoningFilly
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| Posted: Fri Jun 13, 2008 4:25 am Post subject: |
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| I was gonna be human once, but thankfully, I got over that thought! |
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Qubilai
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| Posted: Fri Jun 13, 2008 6:01 am Post subject: |
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| BootedFilly wrote: | | I was gonna be human once, but thankfully, I got over that thought! |
..and then you became a filly instead. |
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ReasoningFilly
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| Posted: Fri Jun 13, 2008 6:03 am Post subject: |
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| Qubilai wrote: | | BootedFilly wrote: | | I was gonna be human once, but thankfully, I got over that thought! |
..and then you became a filly instead. |
You ARE brilliant, aren't you? Teehee!!!!! |
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DurhamDawg
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Humans aren't the only apes that plan ahead
Skill previously believed to be unique to us observed in other primates
"Chimps and orangutans plan for the future just like us.
They are capable of exercising self-control to postpone gratification and to imagine future events via "mental time travel," according to new research from Lunds University Cognitive Science in Sweden.
The skill of future planning was commonly thought to be exclusive to humans, although some studies of apes and crows have challenged this idea, say researchers Mathias and Helena Osvath. Now, for the first time, there is "conclusive evidence of advanced planning capacities in non-human species," they say."
link: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/25211848/
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