From: Paul Turner (paul@turnerbc.co.uk)
Date: Wed Jun 22 2005 - 19:35:48 BST
Mike,
I wanted to add something before the more obvious bowling balls come flying
at me!
I said: "Thinking, to me, is obviously something that bacteria don't do, so
this passage is, in my view, a bit of reductio ad absurdum in overkill. I
always associated thinking (as opposed to, say, problem-solving) with
something only humans did but given that many are prone to ascribing thought
to chimpanzees I am happy to drop the term from any definition of the
intellectual level."
If I may now add that:
a) by "problem-solving" I meant physical problem-solving like pulling
levers, moving blocks into holes etc., not quadratic equations and such
like.
b) I think that only humans think because it seems as though only humans
write and speak in sentences or mathematical or logical notation. So I
already use a fairly narrow definition of thinking anyway.
Regards
Paul
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