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In the 1970s, David Premack wondered if a chimpanzee could be taught to ask a question. He taught Sarah 130 plastic word-tokens. She answered his questions easily. After years of work, she had never asked one of her own. Sixty years later, no signing ape has.
A four-year-old human asks about 25 questions an hour. Paul Harris at Harvard counted them: kids ask their parents around 40,000 questions between ages two and five.
Premack even worked out a method for teaching an ape to ask. Hide a snack the chimp expects. Wait for her to sign "where is it." He never bothered running it on Sarah. She spent her sessions answering his questions, never asking her own. A normal kid, he pointed out, asks "what that? who making noise? when Daddy come home?" on a loop.
Washoe the chimpanzee, the first one taught American Sign Language, knew 250 signs. She could request food. She could sign her name. She once saw a swan and called it "water bird," a sharp invention for an animal she had no sign for. She never asked what the swan was, or where it came from, or anything else.
Koko the gorilla knew about 1,000 signs. Kanzi the bonobo understands more than 3,000 spoken English words. Nim Chimpsky, Herbert Terrace's chimp at Columbia (named to mock the linguist Noam Chomsky), strung 125 signs into more than 20,000 combinations. His longest stretch was "give orange me give eat orange me eat orange give me eat orange give me you." He never asked a thing.
Joseph Jordania, a researcher in Melbourne, thinks this is the line between us and them. To ask a question, you first have to know that the person across from you knows something you don't. Apes do not seem to get to that step, even after a lifetime of being talked at by humans.
Human kids cross that line around their fourth birthday. Apes never do.
I think a person should always spread it around.
A few weeks ago I was at the mall and found a wad of cash that amounted to 500 bucks. As I was exiting the mall, waiting for uber, I came across a young mother and baby. The mom was crying and telling whoever she was on the phone with she had lost her cash. I peeled off a 20.00 and gave it to her. Whenever I’m blessed, I always spread it around.
As an introvert, whenever I took a new position at a company I would text all of my work colleagues and ask to borrow a small amount of money, which I truly do not need
Within weeks this pleasantly evolved into my coworkers completely avoiding me, no invites to off time company functions & events, softball leagues, bowling teams etc.
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@newstart_2024 Gary Breka is a wanna be MD & total quack. Flash in the pan scamologist
He partnered with 10X (Grant Cardone) and all the other propagandists from Scientology & then got his ass handed to him. Lay with dogs & you wake up with fleas