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Carl Sagan: My God, it's full of stars

Decoding the Gurus

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The Differences Between Chimpanzees and Humans

Chimpanzees will drop the useless steps and they'll just go for the instrumental goal right they want the sweet so they realize oh we don't need to do that. The human kids even though when they can see that there is no mechanical purpose for the steps they'll what's called over-imitate right. That's part of what makes us cultural animals in that sense it comes like a limitation but it's not. Correation is not causation exactly and you know it's one of the reasons that people develop delusional thinking about gambling gambling fallacies. People who have gambling problems often also have these little delusions about what will make the machine pay off very similar to how the pige

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