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I sometime wonder if wild crows and ravens can understand a lot of human language, but have a cultural ban on revealing this too often due to how much trouble i
by lotsofmangos 12y ago
I sometime wonder if wild crows and ravens can understand a lot of human language, but have a cultural ban on revealing this too often due to how much trouble it tends to cause.
- nathancahill 12y agoIn Tolkein's universe, the ravens of Erebor could understand and speak Westron. As with the rest of his works, Tolkein drew from Norse mythology, in which Odin's messenger ravens brought him news from around the world.
- tinco 12y agoIn Tolkien's universe, there are trees that understand and speak Westron...
- pjmorris 12y agoGary Larson did a 'Far Side' cartoon where cows were standing, enjoying conversations in the field until one of them yelled 'Car!', where they all went silent and dropped to all fours.
- astrobe_ 12y agoThis echoes to a statement in the "A Murder Of Crows" documentary linked in this thread, which goes like "They are smart, but we are the smartest". If there is an intelligence vastly superior than ours, what are the chances that we find out it exists? Can an "inferior" intelligence identify an other one as "superior"? Put in another way: if a superior AI emerges from one of our experiments, will we be able to understand its output?
- boomlinde 12y agoI'd say that if it was in its interest to communicate something, an intelligent being would be better equipped to do so than an unintelligent being.
- Qantourisc 12y agoIf we ask it to dumb it down sure. Also often it's a lot harder to find a conclusion then to understand the conclusion and how to arrive at the same conclusion. Unless it's so complex our minds cannot comprehend it without years of study on 1 particular problem. But that is already occurring in silence today not ?