Consider: millions of years ago our antecedents gave a massive sacrifice of their left hemisphere. We lost a tremendous amount of short term memory and replaced it with Broca’s, Wernicke & the phonological loop. But why? So we can—talk. Thus chimpanzees can do this—we can’t:pic.twitter.com/CDznxg37p1
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Replying to @BrianRoemmele
Can we not do that, seems like something you could train for over the course of a few months?
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Replying to @aDaveJohnson
David, we have been doing this research for 75 years. There has yet to be a human candidate that could come close to the average chimp in these tests.
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Replying to @BrianRoemmele
Interesting! I’d love to see the videos of strongly incentivized people trying and failing to really drive it home.
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Replying to @aDaveJohnson @BrianRoemmele
its not about ones ability to do so, its about the scientists trying to figure out how our (and chimps) brain are wired
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Replying to @zegwadekh @BrianRoemmele
I get it, I’m just trying to figure out if you could be sure that performance differences were hardwired. People might get pretty good at a game like that if it was their only stimulus and they didn’t get fed if they lost.
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It helps to be a bit humble and accept that some things a Chimp can really do better than us ;-) In the full video of the study, if i recall it right, the scientist postulates that by forming communities, homosapiens eliminated the need to identity threats with just a quick scan.
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Manjo, indeed. This is it precisely. We humans formed alliances through verbal communication that allowed us to build better tools and organize better living conditions. We have not stopped since. We get off the path but get back on ultimately.
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