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Two reasons to think birds excel at spatial reasoning: 1. Migration. 2. Nest-building. If you gave the same pile of materials to a robin and to me, I think th
by CurtMonash 12y ago
Two reasons to think birds excel at spatial reasoning:
1. Migration.
2. Nest-building.
If you gave the same pile of materials to a robin and to me, I think the robin might do a better job of building a nest with it. I base this conjecture upon robin nests I've seen around my house.
- chenelson 12y agoMost humans don't experience much of the z axis without tools. Brain-machine interface with weak AI (translation) could drastically alter the intelligence debate.
- beachstartup 12y agowhat in the world are you talking about? "most" humans exist in 3 dimensions (x,y,z), all the time, with or without tools.
- chenelson 12y agoI'm talking about spatial intelligence and not the difference between Aristotelian and Boolean logic. Obviously I have no idea what it feels like to stack shorter than a pancake (i.e., existing in 2 dimensions). Pedantry aside, the difference between existence and experience seems obvious. I've never seen a human fly and well over 99% of my work is performed in the x and y axis. When communicating directions, I'm rarely concerned about z. Simple graphing tools (e.g., paper and pen) can be used to illustrate my point further.