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>From: map@svl.cdc.com (Mark Peters)
Newsgroups: comp.ai.philosophy
Subject: Re: Animal Intelligence vs Human Intelligence
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Date: 21 Nov 91 20:36:18 GMT
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In <6229@dutrun2.tudelft.nl> winfstu@dutrun2.tudelft.nl (Sylvia Stuurman) writes:

>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.

I don't agree, and for the simple reason that a human face   
*looks* different than anything else the infant is exposed to,
i.e., the infant needs only *perception* to preferentially
recognize human faces.  This might even be explainable in
genetic terms, i.e., it is possible that the brain is  
hard-wired such that an infant is attracted to human facial
features as a survival aid.            

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