Martin Monti, “The Limits of Consciousness” (Open Agenda, 2021)
New Books in Neuroscience
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Animals Can Do Transitive Inferences
Can we look at other members of the eh of the animal kingdom and think about ways of applying diagnostic techniques, sort of like this? Andandi tat is exactly the right question. A lot of animals can do pretty interesting things with math. They certainly can count with low numbers. But same thing you can ask if children pree linguistic, it's not quite right to say pree linguisticissurthey have te hard wire, right y? So even away, before they ever express any language, they can appreciate addition, subtraction. Issovin quadraisem i thinoy has found a way to ask them how to do an integration.
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