Re: Natural keys vs Aritficial Keys
From: Roy Hann <specially_at_processed.almost.meat>
Date: Tue, 19 May 2009 05:54:05 -0500
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Date: Tue, 19 May 2009 05:54:05 -0500
Message-ID: <abednXGje6tQEo_XnZ2dnUVZ8oudnZ2d_at_pipex.net>
David BL wrote:
> To be judged
> successful the mouse had to be able to count objects it had never seen
> before. It was claimed that mice can count up to 3.
Count, or classify at a glance into none, a bit, quite a bit, lots? I am wary of calling that "counting" and I'd want to know more about the design of the experiment to be persuaded that any counting was going on.
But perhaps I am being unromantical. My disbelief in psychics, deities, wonder-foods, morphic resonance, Gaia, etc. has earned me that accusation before now. :-)
-- RoyReceived on Tue May 19 2009 - 12:54:05 CEST