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>From: cam@aisb.ed.ac.uk (Chris Malcolm)
Newsgroups: comp.ai.philosophy
Subject: Re: Animal Intelligence vs Human Intelligence
Message-ID: <1991Oct30.222202.23889@aisb.ed.ac.uk>
Date: 30 Oct 91 22:22:02 GMT
References: <4627@uqcspe.cs.uq.oz.au> <37311@shamash.cdc.com> <1991Oct24.234823.7560@hilbert.cyprs.rain.com> <1991Oct30.091241.9820@cs.bham.ac.uk>
Reply-To: cam@aifh.ed.ac.uk (Chris Malcolm)
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In article <1991Oct30.091241.9820@cs.bham.ac.uk> ard@cs.bham.ac.uk (Antoni Diller) writes:

[Chimps being taught sign language]

>From what you say, we've already taught them how
>to lie.

Smart dogs and cats can certainly lie, and can sometimes recognise when
they are being lied to, so plenty of animals must be able to lie. You
don't have to be able to talk. All you have to be able to do is to
pretend to be doing one thing as a cover for an action which is actually
contributing to the achievement of something else which another animal
would stop you from doing if it realised what you were up to. And the
literature on chimp social behaviour is full of examples of them lying
to one another.

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Chris Malcolm    cam@uk.ac.ed.aipna   +44 (0)31 667 1011 x2550
Department of Artificial Intelligence,    Edinburgh University
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