From newshub.ccs.yorku.ca!ists!helios.physics.utoronto.ca!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!wupost!uunet!mcsun!sun4nl!dutrun!dutrun2!winfstu Tue Nov 26 12:31:08 EST 1991
Article 1463 of comp.ai.philosophy:
Path: newshub.ccs.yorku.ca!ists!helios.physics.utoronto.ca!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!wupost!uunet!mcsun!sun4nl!dutrun!dutrun2!winfstu
>From: winfstu@dutrun2.tudelft.nl (Sylvia Stuurman)
Newsgroups: comp.ai.philosophy
Subject: Re: Animal Intelligence vs Human Intelligence
Message-ID: <6229@dutrun2.tudelft.nl>
Date: 21 Nov 91 12:11:44 GMT
References: <38079@shamash.cdc.com> <6194@dutrun2.tudelft.nl> <38102@shamash.cdc.com>
Organization: Computing Centre of the Technical University of Delft The Netherlands.
Lines: 26

In article <38102@shamash.cdc.com> map@svl.cdc.com writes:
>
>If so, then all it means is that some perceptual ability
>is "wired in," so that experience is not needed for all
>perception.
>
>This doesn't change the fact that perceptual development
>*does* happen after birth, or the fact that such development
>is a prerequisite of entering the conceptual realm.  A person
>who cannot perceive also cannot form or use concepts.  Look
>at how tough it was for Helen Keller, despite the fact that
>she had the "advantage" of spending her first couple years
>of life with normally functioning sense organs.
>--

Being able to discern a human face from any other object means
you have already reached the conceptual level on that point.
You recognize the class of human faces.

Seeing a human face on the perceptual level means that you
see different objects instead of a plain image with colors.
Seeing a human face on the conceptual level is recognizing
a certain class of objects. 
This is where a new-born baby is able to.

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


