Thread: Seriousness What is it that makes us human?
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Old 05-05-2009, 05:50 AM   #119
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Originally Posted by tirsales View Post
As I said - some are surprisingly intelligent (e.g. recognition of oneself in mirrors (basic abstraction), some sense of time, ability to reflect about the knowledge of others, ability to react to the beat in music, etc) and we still haven't found the limits.
I really do not believe the evidence shows this. Of course it might be true but there is not enough evidence for holding this as true. How do you test that "oneself" is recognized?

Just one experiment that seems to show something is not enough. Remember all the experiment that seemed to show that an ape had a language with abstract concepts.
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