Are you smarter than Chimpsky?

[GammaGlobulin]

Dear Friends,

 

Some of you may have wondered if some of your friends might be smarter than Chomsky, or even Chimpsky.

 

It all boils down to what you might mean by intelligence.

 

Some mental tasks are easier for apes, for example.

 

Chimps are very fast at pattern recognition, obviously.

 

https://youtu.be/qyJomdyjyvM

 

(The above link cannot be embedded here, simply because the chimps at Google do not allow it.)

 

Here is a similar link showing the same thing:

 

 

So, what does this prove?

 

a.  Google vetting and censoring of harmless educational videos is stupid.  And Google is sillier than chimps?

b.  Intelligence is not so simple.

c.  Chimps are interesting to watch.

 

d. Chomsky is smarter than chimps because he is human and chimps are not human.

 

e.  This evening is a Sunday, and sometimes, on a Sunday, it is good to look back into, and criticize, some of the things we once took as gospel, while attending school.

 

So, do you think it might be strange that a chimp can outperform us on some memory tasks?

 

Or, do you think that a bald eagle, or a golden eagle, seeing better than you, is unfair?

 

 

 

Personally, I wish I had the eye of an eagle.

And, I wish I had the brain of a chimp, in some cases.

 

But, above all, I just wish I had the brain of Chomsky!

 

What about you?

 

Regards,

 

Gam