Episode 37: Animal Intelligence and Knowledge Creation (part 1)
The Theory of Anything
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Animal Behavior Parsing, a Memetic Transfer of Whole Programming
Behaviour parson is a memetic transfer of whole programms that can be used flexibly to accomplish desired goals. It's very impressive what animals can do, with animals that can do behavior parson, what they can do with it. On the other hand, behavior parsong has a very strong mechanical element to it, in terms of learning the steps in the programme. And david doyt uses that to suggest that animals aren't very intelligent. He gives examples of where they do it even though it doesn't make sense. Theg they'll learn some gesture, and then they'll doing it even though they'r thumb's missing, or something like that, and it's not
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