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BI 137 Brian Butterworth: Can Fish Count?

Brain Inspired

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Do We Need to Count?

The idea that an organism can count some things but not other things is kind of hard to fathom, given are what we would consider superior abstraction ability. Some things you need to betrayd to counta so there was a, yeu're a famous nineteenth century calculator who counted the the number of hairs on the tail of a horse. Now, he didn't need to do thathe just wanted to do it. What you choose to count is really say up to you.

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