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Can we be too uncertain about uncertainty responses?

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  30 January 2004

Lori Marino
Affiliation:
Neuroscience and Behavioral Biology Program, and Living Links Center for the Advanced Study of Ape and Human Evolution, Department of Psychology, Emory University, Atlanta, GA 30322 [email protected] http://www.emory.edu/LIVING_LINKS/i/people/marino.html

Abstract

Smith et al. propose that the most parsimonious explanation for identical responses of humans and nonhumans under the same conditions is not always the simplest cognitive explanation but could be the one that has the most logical consistency across species. The authors provide convincing evidence and a reasonable argument for declarative consciousness as a shared psychological property in humans, monkeys, and dolphins.

Type
Brief Report
Copyright
© 2003 Cambridge University Press

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