Did I solve the original problem I had posed? Why are humans smarter than animals? First let me state that, when expressed in general terms, my...
I read the story of Kanzi of which i had only vaguely heard, Sue Savage-Rumbaugh - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia, and I must say I found quite...
I have talked earlier of the relationship between the choreography of a dance, and the dance itself. Let me add an analogy(edit: more of a riddle...
The transition from animal to human is almost universally considered to be motored at least partially by language. Origin of language -...
An example of a very superficial analysis of the difference between animal and human intelligence. I will wait for the book for a final judgment,...
There was a time when animals were thought to be solely controlled by instincts. Nowadays the view is much more nuanced, and the distinction...
When I first started reading up on animal intelligence and consciousness, some 10 years ago , there was hardly anything on the Internet. So I read...
I do not have a concrete example yet of the influence of a larger sensation array on the possibilities for an organism to change the world. But I...
The flexibility Sensitive has attained, is not so different from the flexibility that Sensationless had reached herself. In both cases, it is an...
Once we have an indirect link between sensation and behavior, the same sensation (hunger) can give rise to different behaviors. The body chemistry...
To analyze the role sensation can have in the evolution of intelligence, we will have to follow the same path as with Sensationless Amy. That...
We now have: - a copy of the external stimuli (in the form of memory), - a copy of the internal stimuli, - a copy of the feed and move...
Let me state that any organism that is capable of hoarding should be capable of tool keeping. After all the principle seems the same: keep...
So far, all we needed was (taking into consideration only vision as a distal input modality): - retina, - optical nerve (in Amy's case, both...
We already had something like intent by Amy's creation. Didn't we assume that she needed a survival instinct? But we also talked about...
We already had something like intent by Amy's creation. Didn't we assume that shed needed a survival instinct? But we also talked about...
How can Amy learn how to use a tool? A tool is, in principle, nothing more than an "enhanced" organ. Instead of using a part of your body...
Many species, when they have attained the evolutionary plateau Amy has reached, have usually learned one trick, and one trick alone. A few...
Since I do not know as yet how to proceed further with Amy - our relationship has reached a critical point, so maybe a time out will do us both...
I think I made a serious logical or conceptual mistake. When I assumed that the number of neurons in Amy's retina would be drastically reduced in...
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