
Philip Ball - How to Make Sense of Inhuman Minds
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Are You Aware of the Opposite Tendencies?
Psychologists have long assumed that animals are automatatut. They were just responding to in a way that machines could do, he says. But now we can use scientific techniques to see what's going on inside the brain. And un surprisingly, given a close evolutionary relationship, there are lots of similarities - but it comes from careful cognitive experiments. He thinks primates need to be attributed minds like ours at least for some reason.
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