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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How similar was Kim's ability and a chimp's ability to do this? Obviously a healthy chimp mind can do this but a healthy human cannot. Is this a latent ability in the human mind similar to the Chimps or was Kim deriving a similar result through a different ability?
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Mike, great questions. We still do not understand how Kim worked. All I know is he was able to count a box of tooth picks dropped in the table in 4 seconds. Thus this is a temporary borderline where it is possible for humans to go. He is gone but there is years of study ahead.
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That’s amazing. Thanks
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