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 @aDaveJohnson
bullshit. you dont know the literature, thats all.https://www.researchgate.net/publication/45629789_Do_young_chimpanzees_have_extraordinary_memory …
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Replying to @CTennie @aDaveJohnson
Claudio, sorry you fell that way. I have been to Primate Research Institute Kyoto University 3 times and studied the research for 18 years. I go by the empirical research involving 100s of studies. I do not look at one paper with a pre conceived agenda to “de bunk”.
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Replying to @BrianRoemmele @aDaveJohnson
you made a claim that does not stand up to the evidence, ao i called bullshit. the logic is clear: you say humans cant do it. technically to debunk that claim a single human doing it suffices. as it so happens many humans match or surpass the chimps in the task. debunked.
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Claudio, there is no evidence supplied in the link you presented that asserts that the precise studies done at the university have been performed by any of the test subjects. Thus there is nothing “de bunked”. It is always fun to see decades of university research “de bunked”.
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