Curioso on Nostr: npub1kpwlx…xxzz4 Well, it seems really hard to design an experiment to know if ...
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Well, it seems really hard to design an experiment to know if animals have abstraction capabilities.
I think they must have some; knowing if a random animal belongs to your species or not is in itself a form of abstraction.
Creating symbols and managing them is really what language is about; and math is the most formalized and strict of them. Since animals have very limited language abilities, it is not surprising their math abilities are (nearly?) undetectable.
Well, it seems really hard to design an experiment to know if animals have abstraction capabilities.
I think they must have some; knowing if a random animal belongs to your species or not is in itself a form of abstraction.
Creating symbols and managing them is really what language is about; and math is the most formalized and strict of them. Since animals have very limited language abilities, it is not surprising their math abilities are (nearly?) undetectable.