There is a question, how do you think to define "intelligent creatures", is it going to use tools? Or do you know how to survive better, or like humans, you know what you need and know how to do it, or you know how to be happy
In my opinion, only whether or not you can feel loneliness is the criterion for defining intelligent beings, and life is like a reverse journey, and life that is detached from material needs will seek spiritual sustenance.
Sometimes you are in a party, watching people coming and going but feeling that nothing belongs to you, sometimes you look back and there is no one to walk with you, this is loneliness.
lonely
Loneliness is probably when you look around, and the bustling crowd has no one to resonate with you.
Man may be able to endure all kinds of suffering, such as hunger or oppression, but it is difficult to endure the most painful of all sufferings: total loneliness.
That is a feeling that only intelligent beings can have.
How do you think "intelligent beings" should be defined correctly? Additions are welcome.
Animal minds seem relatively simple to humans, and in fact, many animal minds are not as stupid as people think.
After years of research, scientists have found that mathematics is not only the patent of humans, but some animals in nature also have good mathematical talents.
Scientists questioned the mathematical abilities of animals dating back 100 years.
At that time, the people of Europe were very excited by a horse named "Smart Hans", because it could perform a mental program such as arithmetic.
In fact, the horse doesn't count at all, it just gets hints from the trainer.
There are also examples of animals that can do arithmetic are thought to be
Clever Hans
However, some scientific studies in recent years have indeed uncovered the arithmetic abilities of various animals.
An animal psychologist at Harvard University in the United States first gave the animals the wrong information when testing, and then observed their reactions.
He fed two bananas to 100 Caribbean wild monkeys for a month, and since then, the bananas have suddenly shrunk to one.
Just after the bananas were reduced, 96 monkeys looked at the bananas in their hands 1 to 2 times more, and a few monkeys even screamed at the managers to express their dissatisfaction.
Another American animal behavior researcher did a similar experiment.
He first asked the 8 chimpanzees to eat 10 bananas each time, so they ate them for many days.
One day, he suddenly gave each orangutan only 8 bananas, and all the orangutans stayed where they were and refused to leave until the administrator had replenished the other two bananas, and they left satisfactorily.
It can be seen that wild monkeys and chimpanzees have "mathematical brains".
chimpanzee
Not long ago, in a wild sanctuary, researchers drilled holes in fallen logs in front of robins and inserted different numbers of bugs into those holes.
They found that robins would pounce on the hole with the most insects first, and since then, the researchers have begun to play tricks, taking some bugs away when the robins are not paying attention, and then the birds will spend twice as long in the holes looking for missing bugs.
This experiment proves that some birds are born to distinguish small numbers.
(The PS robin is a small songbird found in Europe, West Asia, and Northern Africa.) British robins often fly to gardeners for bugs to eat)
robin
The counting ability of the animals was also different, someone put three small plates in front of the limelight wheat chicken, one worm on plate 1, two worms in plate 2, and three worms in plate 3.
As a result, the limelight wheat chicken sometimes eats the plate of two worms first, sometimes eats the plate of three worms first, and the plate of one worm is always the last to eat.
Experiments have proved that the crested wheat chicken knows that 2 is more than 1, unfortunately it can only count to 2, so it will sometimes choose the 2nd disk, and sometimes choose the 3rd disk.
(Ps is a summer migratory bird in northern China, a winter migratory bird in the south, and a traveling bird in the middle (south of Hebei and north of the Yangtze River).) The earliest spring is from early March to mid-March, and in autumn, the breeding grounds are moved away from the breeding grounds in mid-to-late September. It is often active in groups, especially in winter, and often integrates large groups of tens to hundreds of animals. ）
Crested wheat chicken
The psychologist also trained parrots in mathematics.
He found that parrots could accurately report the number of colored pieces of wood on the pallet in English, but the number of pieces of wood could not exceed 6.
Psychologists at Columbia University have conducted multiple experiments on two monkeys and found that monkeys can point to icons from small to large numbers, and can count to 9.
Scientists point out that apes are the most intelligent in the animal kingdom, and about 70% of adult apes can be trained to count from 1 to 100, with an accuracy rate of more than 90%.
Understanding the biological basis of animals' mathematical abilities is closely related to humans, and in the eyes of some scientists, this is a revelation for child educators: people don't have to wait until their children are four or five years old to teach mathematics, as usual, they should be exposed to numbers as soon as possible.
Some scientists believe that the ability of animals to count is innate, and the need for survival may be the driving force behind the evolution of this ability.
With this ability, animals can estimate differences in the size of rival populations, and when looking for food, they can also compare the ratio of food to time invested to determine whether it is wise to stay in the place.
Do you think an animal's ability to count is instinctive? Or do you really have wisdom?
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