Hi All
"The interpretation of behaviour remains subject to the bias of the
observer; one observer can classify behaviour as intelligent, and a
second observer will dismiss the same behaviour as instinctive. There is
also the tendency to be anthropomorphic -- to attribute human feelings
and motives to the behaviour of non humans. Until we can actually talk
with a non-human, it is difficult, if not impossible, to do anything but
speculate on what is being thought or perceived. We cannot even
understand with any certainty what a human being from a different
culture, speaking a different language, may be thinking or perceiving.
Even among people of our own culture, language, class, or academic
standing, it is a formidable task to peer inside the workings of the
brain. In this respect all brains other than our own are alien, and I
might venture to add that the inner workings of our individual brains
are still a mystery to each of us that possess one."
Captain Paul Watson - Sea Shepherd
For those of you with Facebook accounts here's an interesting link:
https://www.facebook.com/captpaulwatson/posts/10152578876705932:0
It's about intelligence in other species relating to brain size and
makes some extremely interesting points.
Are we confusing technological know-how with intellect and, if we meet a
species with superior intellect, how would we be able to recognise this
let alone experience it?
Cheers
Horse
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"Without music to decorate it, time is just a bunch of boring production deadlines
or dates by which bills must be paid."
— Frank Zappa
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