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>From: jeff@aiai.ed.ac.uk (Jeff Dalton)
Newsgroups: comp.ai.philosophy
Subject: Re: Animal Intelligence vs Human Intelligence
Message-ID: <5681@skye.ed.ac.uk>
Date: 22 Nov 91 20:28:51 GMT
References: <4627@uqcspe.cs.uq.oz.au> <37311@shamash.cdc.com> <1991Oct24.234823.7560@hilbert.cyprs.rain.com> <1991Oct30.091241.9820@cs.bham.ac.uk> <1991Oct30.222202.23889@aisb.ed.ac.uk>
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In article <1991Oct30.222202.23889@aisb.ed.ac.uk> cam@aifh.ed.ac.uk (Chris Malcolm) writes:
>Smart dogs and cats can certainly lie, and can sometimes recognise when
>they are being lied to, so plenty of animals must be able to lie. You
>don't have to be able to talk. All you have to be able to do is to
>pretend to be doing one thing as a cover for an action which is actually
>contributing to the achievement of something else which another animal
>would stop you from doing if it realised what you were up to.

Misleading behavior isn't the same as telling lies, except
metaphorically.


