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Of course they lie, they are completely open minds designed by nature to experiment with the world in order to survive, and therefore pursue any strategy they f
by dood 17y ago
Of course they lie, they are completely open minds designed by nature to experiment with the world in order to survive, and therefore pursue any strategy they find will benefit them.
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- roundsquare 17y agoI presume that before this experiment, psychologists believed that lying wouldn't an option they came up with. For example, babies cry when they want/need something or if something is wrong. If you believe that in the presence of this want/need/problem they wouldn't realize what crying sounds like (and thus can't mimic it later) you wouldn't expect them to "lie" by crying. Of course, anyone holding that theory would need to give an approximate age at which they are able to observe the sound and mimic it. The point here is that the age at which this happens is much earlier then people thought before. This, I think, is what makes it a surprising discovery.