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[William Flynn Wallace]

 What does it mean for a nervous system incapable of using language to be
"smart" anyways?]  Darin

I am not up on the area of baby psychology, but I have noted some
astounding findings from studies with babies aged 3 to, say, 8 months old.
Plenty of understanding about how things work in the world.  Babies under a
month old are capable of learning manipulative crying - to get food, help.
attention, and so on.  No English language, but plenty of nonverbal
communication.  Ask some parents if their kid is smart.  bill w

On Fri, Feb 12, 2021 at 11:16 AM Darin Sunley via extropy-chat <
extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> wrote:

> Dead babies are, by definition, not smart.
>
> [Whether they were smart when they were alive is another question
> altogether, and non-trivial at that. What does it mean for a nervous system
> incapable of using language to be "smart" anyways?]
>
> On Thu, Feb 11, 2021 at 11:40 AM Mike Dougherty via extropy-chat <
> extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> wrote:
>
>> On Thu, Feb 11, 2021, 10:50 AM William Flynn Wallace via extropy-chat <
>> extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> wrote:
>>
>>> What surprising traits/behaviors correlate with intelligence?
>>>
>>> <https://www.quora.com/What-surprising-traits-behaviors-correlate-with-intelligence>
>>>
>>> Lots of things correlate with intelligence. Some are obvious and some
>>> not. Here is one list of correlates:
>>>
>>> So does that really suggest dead babies aren't smart?
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