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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Thank u very much Brian. I will spend days and days now wondering what they do with that capacity in their natural environment.
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@threadreaderapp we need you
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Simply because they don't have long term memory? Or do they? Basically those 300 steps is their entire life...
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