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>From: krom@en.ecn.purdue.edu (Kevin M Krom)
Newsgroups: comp.ai.philosophy
Subject: Re: Animal Intelligence vs Human Intelligence
Message-ID: <1991Nov1.152428.2760@en.ecn.purdue.edu>
Date: 1 Nov 91 15:24:28 GMT
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In article <1991Oct31.235402.12739@hilbert.cyprs.rain.com> max@hilbert.cyprs.rain.com (Max Webb) writes:
>
>But this is far from the whole story. Tool making behavior
>and puzzle solving has been observed in chimps on many occasions,
>which I feel really must be considered thinking of the highest kind.
>

Just my $.02 here, but tool making and using behavior isn't the highest level
of thinking, abstraction is.  Most humans do not reach the level where they
can start thinking in abstractions until their early teens, but they can 
make and use tools well before.  Whether or not a chimpanzee (etc...) is
capable of abstraction is a question I'll leave to the experts.


-- 
Kevin Krom
Purdue Class of '92 (I hope)


