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Article 1434 of comp.ai.philosophy:
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>From: winfstu@dutrun2.tudelft.nl (Sylvia Stuurman)
Newsgroups: comp.ai.philosophy
Subject: Re: Animal Intelligence vs Human Intelligence
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Date: 20 Nov 91 14:10:29 GMT
References: <38039@shamash.cdc.com> <1991Nov19.000813.26477@spss.com> <38079@shamash.cdc.com>
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In article <38079@shamash.cdc.com> map@svl.cdc.com writes:
>                             What you are talking about is an
>infant who has already reached the perceptual level, i.e., who's
>brain has already "learned" to recognize entities.  I don't know the   
>exact age at which an infant reaches the perceptual level, nor the
>exact age at which it first enters the conceptual realm - all I 
>know is that these happen sometime before the age of three.

Even a new-born baby discerns a human face from anything else:
when there is a human face available to look at, they will
look much longer to it than to any other object.

So I think your concept of first reaching the perceptual level,
then the conceptual level is far to primitive to describe
the learning of human beings (and other animals).

S. Stuurman                 e-mail winfstu@duticai.tudelft.nl


