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How can a woman be expected to be happy with a man who insists on treating her as if she were a perfectly normal human being. - Oscar Wilde
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Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former. - Albert Einstein
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Education: that which reveals to the wise, and conceals from the stupid, the vast limits of their knowledge. - Mark Twain
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I thoroughly disapprove of duels. If a man should challenge me, I would take him kindly and forgivingly by the hand and lead him to a quiet place and kill him. - Mark Twain
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Great spirits have always found violent opposition from mediocrities. The latter cannot understand it when a man does not thoughtlessly submit to hereditary prejudices but honestly and courageously uses his intelligence. - Albert Einstein
Tuesday, May 09, 2006
Call me Screech
It appears that Dolphins get more intelligent the more money is spent on researching them - or the more research is done, the more we find out about how intelligent they have always been but we didn't know about it before. - I don't think i can make that anymore convoluted.
Anyway.....
Scientists have discovered that Dolphins have names and recognise each other by these labels (like humans) rather than by 'voice' or the pitch of the sound.
I think this is kinda kewl, but still think there are a lot of things that research dollars could be better spent on; but then that may just be because I don't know what they are hoping to achieve from the study.
I've not heard that word before 'ensouled'.... Guess it depends on belief structure and notions of how synapses work. I imagine it would be difficult to strap electrodes on a dolphin to measure brain activity - electricity & water not being the most conducive mix for ensuring ongoing viability....
Maybe it's that 'bio-mimicry' stuff Murray was preaching about today ;)