December 06, 2003

Monkeyfilter!
posted by Gyan 20 years ago
  • Great findings! Although those were to be expected. The surprise for me would have been that they had found bottlenose dolphins didn't have metacognitive skills. The way dolphins find the solution to many problems implied that they internally must choose between several solving methodologies in their minds. If they didn't then they were too lucky in choosing mostly always the correct solution after very few trials. Other animals I'm sure have those same metacognitive skills are Octopi, Crows and the all of the primates. I still have some doubt over the testing methodology. How are they sure that they chose to be "uncertain" because they were really uncertain about their own solutions or just because they preferred the short gain.
  • and the all of the primates It seems that I didn't did enough spellchecks. Baaad...
  • "They apparently know when they know and when they don't know...." Who Knows? Not me. I dunno. Bring on the monkeys!
  • "They apparently know when they know and when they don't know...." I believe this is critical to true conciousness.
  • I'm not even running!!
  • I've been resting.
  • I repeat: Bring on the monkeys!
  • NEED MORE MONKEY!