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From: smiles@speedy.uwaterloo.ca (Ilana Jayne Rosenshein)
Subject: Re: Computers--Next stage in evolution? Hmmmmmm.....
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In article <D5t31C.86A@topazio.dcc.ufmg.br>,
Lucio de Souza Coelho <omni@topazio.dcc.ufmg.br> wrote:
>In article <3jmi3b$ljc@agate.berkeley.edu>, <jerrybro@uclink2.berkeley.edu> writes:
>|> 
>
>If a child borns and grows without contact with creatures able to use some
>language (humans and a lot of other animals), then do this child become a
>thoughtless adult?
>
>(I don't know HOW could this terrible experiment be made. Using dumb nurse
>robots?)
>
Something like this did happen, with Victor, the "Wild Boy of Aveyron"
He was studied by Jean-Marc Itard.  However, since this was around 1800,
I am not sure how much information is relevant to this discussion.  I do
know that he was found to be of limited intelligence, which could have 
been caused by his social isolation.

Ilana

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