Animal Minds (Animals)

by David Turell , Saturday, June 11, 2011, 17:14 (4700 days ago) @ xeno6696

Some chimps can reason as well as four-year-old kids:
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> > http://www.physorg.com/news/2011-06-chimps-capable-insightful-ability.html
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> > But we are "NOT A Chimp"; read the book. Our DNA is really 17% different when all arrangements of genes and other entities in the genome are studied statistically.
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> In all fairness, you don't see "chimps are human" in the literature. You see "closest living relative."
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> Also, in light of some new studies done in the last 40 years since Adler's book with other primates--his thesis is seriously undermined.-
I'm content to do regular battle with you over animal minds. They have midget mentation. Find me a Mozart moose or a Bonobo Beethoven. They do have minimal reasoning capacity, and can be aware of themselves. But aware that they are aware, and write books about it. Don't be silly. We are different in kind. There is your challenge! We were meant to be king of the heap.