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>From: rickert@mp.cs.niu.edu (Neil Rickert)
Subject: Re: Animal Intelligence vs Human Intelligence
Message-ID: <1991Nov14.145620.9823@mp.cs.niu.edu>
Organization: Northern Illinois University
References: <37713@shamash.cdc.com> <1991Nov05.084137.29880km <1991Nov14.131622.6078@nntp.hut.fi>
Date: Thu, 14 Nov 1991 14:56:20 GMT
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In article <1991Nov14.131622.6078@nntp.hut.fi> jkp@cs.HUT.FI (Jyrki Kuoppala) writes:
>In article <1991Nov05.084137.29880kmc@netcom.COM>, kmc@netcom (Kevin McCarty) writes:
>>People usually tell the truth because that's
>>what comes naturally.
>
>Yes, I agree.

  Nonsense.  Telling the truth is LEARNED behaviour.  It DOES NOT come
naturally.  How well you learn to tell the truth is culturally
dependent.

>>To lie requires significant mental effort of
>>imagination and calculation.

  Only if you need to create an elaborate story as a backdrop to your
your lie.

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  Neil W. Rickert, Computer Science               <rickert@cs.niu.edu>
  Northern Illinois Univ.
  DeKalb, IL 60115                                   +1-815-753-6940


