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What animal intelligence reveals about human stupidity with Justin Gregg

ReThinking

CHAPTER

Pigeons Aren't Smart, Right?

Psychologists have studied pigeons for a long time, and I can't even fathom what pigeons are able to do. You can train a pigeon just through learned associations to recognize the difference because they have great visual acuity between cancerous and non-cancerous tissue. They will be better than a trained radiologist one-on-one head-to-head. But it isn't intelligent in that sense because it's not like we're talking about goal directed. The animal kingdom doesn't need all that extra intelligence because it's so powerful with basic learning.

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