MugaSofer comments on How minimal is our intelligence? - Less Wrong

55 Post author: Douglas_Reay 25 November 2012 11:34PM

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Comment author: orthonormal 22 November 2012 06:17:37AM 4 points [-]

Chimps can suss out recursive puzzles where you have color-coded keys and locks, and you need to unlock Box A to get Key B to unlock Box B to get Key C to unlock Box C which contains food. They even choose the right box to unlock when one chain leads to the food and the other doesn't.

Sorry, there's not a difference of kind to be found here.

Comment author: MugaSofer 22 November 2012 06:28:14AM 0 points [-]

But then, there are plenty of examples of chimps exhibiting behavior that implies intelligence.