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QuoteRef: hausMD_2000




Group:
natural language
Topic:
recognition
Topic:
entities
Topic:
what is a number
Topic:
equal simplicity
Topic:
symbolic representation
Topic:
abstraction
Topic:
spatial metaphor in user interfaces
Topic:
models of reality
Topic:
consciousness
Topic:
problems with empirical truth
Topic:
ethics

Reference

Hauser, M.D., Wild Minds: What Animals Really Think, New York, Henry Holt and Company, 2000. Google

Quotations
42 ;;Quote: all animals recognize objects and predict their behavior; allows representation of artifacts without language
42+;;Quote: language enriches the human representation of artifacts, but is not necessary
57 ;;Quote: with difficulty, animals can discriminate numbers 0 to 10 as well as young children
57+;;Quote: different process of acquistion tells us that animals and children represent number in different ways
58 ;;Quote: animals have a number category and some understanding of a number concept, e.g., ordinality
62 ;;Quote: humans spontaneously assign symbols to objects and events; animals do not
62+;;Quote: humans manipulate symbol sequences to alter their meaning; a combinatoric system not available to animals
62+;;Quote: number and language skills leapfrog each other as children learn to manipulate symbols
94 ;;Quote: all animals process spatial information and use dead reckoning; supplemented with specialized devices
104 ;;Quote: only adult great apes and children over two pass Gallup's dye mark test of self-awareness; spontaneous behavior toward their mirror reflection
113 ;;Quote: all animals recognize others, distinguishing males from females, young from old, and kin from non-kin
113+;;Quote: only humans appear to have a sense of self, to have unique and personal mental states and emotional experiences
129 ;;Quote: human infants infer the intentions and goals of others; for example, opening a jar that an adult failed to open
209 ;;Quote: most animals have rich thoughts and emotions but no system for communicating what they think to others
233 ;;Quote: young children and tamarins expect all falling objects to fall straight down, despite evidence to the contrary
234 ;;Quote: young children and all animals can not shape the moral community; limited capacity for inhibition and conceptual change
234+;;Quote: to make ethical decisions you must choose between alternatives, often inhibiting our desires; furthermore, what is right and wrong changes as our legal systems change

Related Topics up

Group: natural language   (16 topics, 539 quotes)
Topic: recognition (50 items)
Topic: entities (20 items)
Topic: what is a number (55 items)
Topic: equal simplicity (15 items)
Topic: symbolic representation (26 items)
Topic: abstraction (62 items)
Topic: spatial metaphor in user interfaces (33 items)
Topic: models of reality (33 items)
Topic: consciousness (58 items)
Topic: problems with empirical truth (21 items)
Topic: ethics (46 items)

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