Episode 37: Animal Intelligence and Knowledge Creation (part 1)
The Theory of Anything
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Animals and the Squirrel
Ry: There's a great deal of mystery with animals. We don't put if you were to go creating ae that could do classical conditioning like a dog, i'd be a nobell prize winner, right? Like we just can't do it. All these alvarithms that we're talking about, all of them have a variation in selection process involved. It's most obvious in the case of classical conditioning, repeat variations that keep happening near a positive event or h opposite of that,. insight allows you to do mental variations to a problem in your head. So if animals have insight, ad that's what they're doing, they've got some ability to try out mental variation
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