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Originally Posted by boink
this is completely ridiculous to me.
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It's completely ridiculous to me that some people can't see (or refuse to see) the obvious. Animals are indeed vastly inferior to human beings in their intelligence.
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Originally Posted by KnifeMissile
I also don't think we're nearly as smart as you think we are, relative to the other animals on Earth. The other primates are capable of surprisingly abstract thought and communication. They can even understand the concept of zero; an abstract idea that came surprisingly late in human history.
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Give me a break. Did these other primates discover the concept of zero, or was it taught to them? And what useful (if not enterprising) endeavors are these other primates able to apply their understanding of zero?
Show me a monkey who can be taught to, say, assemble a desktop computer (let alone design one, with all its complex and intricate parts), and on a
consistent basis (that is, without the monkey quickly getting bored or distracted, and thus throwing computer parts across the room or smearing his feces over them), and maybe then I'll be impressed.