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Well, that makes the list go up to 3: Intelligent brain + stereoscopic vision + opposing thumbs. As you point out in your example, many intelligent species ha
by crpatino 11y ago
Well, that makes the list go up to 3:
Intelligent brain + stereoscopic vision + opposing thumbs.
As you point out in your example, many intelligent species have been observed using rudimentary tools. The conventional explanation is that we must be so much more smart than them, since our tools are much more complex.
My point is that maybe what they lack is not the raw intelligence to envision the use of tools, but the dexterity to apply that intelligence to the task of complex tool making.
- yareally 11y ago> My point is that maybe what they lack is not the raw intelligence to envision the use of tools, but the dexterity to apply that intelligence to the task of complex tool making. Sounds plausible to me. The more difficult question is how does one ever prove that it's true? I agree that it could be, just overcoming the difficulty in testing with species we barely understand/communicate with hasn't caught up yet to our curiosity.