Partially very interesting, but would be about ten times shorter and a hundred times better without the vitriolic diatribe against science and technology.
Also it's completely lacking any discussion of evidence in behaviour to support superior whale intelligence (besides the human tendency towards being self-destructive and lack of similar behaviour in whales). If the whale brain is so great, what problem-solving behaviour do they show to demonstrate this ?
Originally shared by David Stroe
An essay worthy of your time
„Apart from our collective ego as a species, the idea of an Earthling species more intelligent than ourselves is difficult to swallow. We measure intelligence in strictly human terms, based on those abilities that we as a species excel at.”
https://knowledgeutopia.wordpress.com/2014/08/28/the-cetacean-brain-and-hominid-perceptions-of-cetacean-intelligence/
Okay, possible dumb-ass layman's question here:
ReplyDeleteWhat do whales do that birds don't?
Sounds like a sensible question to me...
ReplyDeleteOn the other hand...
ReplyDeletehttp://freespace.virgin.net/ianstewart.joat/MATHDW/mathematicians.html
Maybe whales are doing complex calculations in their heads and have realised that the most intelligent thing to do is, well, bugger all really. :P