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That depends on how long the mouse has to be taught. If we had 1,000 years I bet we could do it.
by rthomas6 11y ago
That depends on how long the mouse has to be taught. If we had 1,000 years I bet we could do it.
- jacquesm 11y agoI don't think mice live for 1,000 years so there is a slight problem with your theory.
- rthomas6 11y agoMy point was that humans can pass acquired knowledge to future generations. Given enough time, we can figure out things that would take too long for any one generation to understand on their own.
- jacquesm 11y agoYes, but your example is both irrational, poorly chosen and simply will not work, no matter how much time we have since it requires the co-operation of the subject which simply does not have the neural apparatus to comprehend speech as we generally understand it. So no, given 1,000 years we will not be able to teach mice French, nor Russian, Chinese, English or any other human language. There's more to that than simply wanting it to be so, no matter how much information we can pass on to future generations.