Research – Homepage Neugebauer Family https://www.neugebauer.name/en/ ... about all and nothing ... Sun, 16 Feb 2014 16:27:41 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.6.2 Animals and the definition of intelligence https://www.neugebauer.name/en/2014/02/animals-and-the-definition-of-intelligence/ Sun, 16 Feb 2014 16:06:17 +0000 http://www.neugebauer.name/?p=2694 Continue reading Animals and the definition of intelligence ]]> I think that many people too quickly come to believe that (some) animals are intelligen. Specifically pet-owners tend to believe that “their” special creature definitely must be intelligent.

I’m certainly not convinced. Some time I go I thought it is easy to tell which behaviour is intelligent, or not; but today I believe that objective criteria are hard to find. It may still be possible to argue specific behaviours or specific cases, but to instate objective criteria to decide in general about intelligence… seems to be hard or impossible.

And there are astonishing specific cases. You can see reports or videos where you really wonder: is this a fake with long and specific training of the animal; is it just coincidence; or is it a collection of very specific natural behaviour pattern, that put together create the impression of intelligent behaviour; or is it really Intelligence?

Currently I tend to think that a collection of thoroughly connected pieces of behaviour, you can call it evolution of behavioural patterns, combined together … can create the impression of intelligent behaviour. But it’s not necessarily intelligence. But I would not be sure enough to rule it out.

In any case, it is a very interesting topic and fun to watch…

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The Scale of the Universe 2 https://www.neugebauer.name/en/2012/02/the-scale-of-the-universe-2-en/ Thu, 29 Aug 2013 18:09:40 +0000 http://www.neugebauer.name/?p=2158 From the absolutely smallest to the absolutely biggest The Scale of the Universe 2.

WOW

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The surprising truth about what motivates us – RSA Animate https://www.neugebauer.name/en/2012/01/the-surprising-truth-about-what-motivates-us-rsa-animate/ Tue, 24 Jan 2012 21:50:14 +0000 http://www.neugebauer.name/2012/01/the-surprising-truth-about-what-motivates-us-rsa-animate/ Habe dieses Video schon vor längerem mal gesehen und heute bei Google+ wieder gefunden:

RSA Animate – Drive: The surprising truth about what motivates us – YouTube.

Finde ich sehr interessant.

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