Showing posts with label Ethology. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Ethology. Show all posts

Tuesday, 10 March 2009

Forward Planning Chimps

I came across this interesting article. It shows that chimps can plan forward and that they have the ability to foresee particular mental states. This also implies that they are self aware. This is one of the last areas that the religious have clung on to in a vain attempt to claim that humans are somehow special and outwith the rest of nature.