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Chargement... If a Lion Could Talk: Animal Intelligence and the Evolution of Consciousness (1998)par Stephen Budiansky
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This is an exploration of the rapidly developing field of animal intelligence. Stephen Budiansky demonstrates how well-adapted animal intelligence is for their survival in the evolutionary contest. Aucune description trouvée dans une bibliothèque |
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I vacillated about buying into the 'animal as machine' concept, but ultimately it doesn't fit with my experience of animals, at least not the higher ones. While I wouldn't impute the full human range of emotions to animals, I do believe that they are on a spectrum of feeling with us, and not in a completely different order of experiencing. Perhaps I'm deluding myself.
My understanding of evolution is that it proceeds in incremental steps, building on previous developments to produce more adaptive characteristics. It therefore seems unlikely to me that the human way of perceiving the world is entirely without precedent. The alternative, I guess, is that humans, too, are stimulus/response mechanisms with delusions of grandeur but, again, that doesn't entirely match my own experience which, in the end, is all I have upon which to base a judgement. ( )