<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:comic sans ms,sans-serif;font-size:large;color:#000000"><div dir="ltr" style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small"><div> What does it mean for a nervous system incapable of using language to be "smart" anyways?]  Darin</div><div><br></div><div>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</div></div></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Fri, Feb 12, 2021 at 11:16 AM Darin Sunley via extropy-chat <<a href="mailto:extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org">extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr">Dead babies are, by definition, not smart.<div><br></div><div>[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?]</div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Thu, Feb 11, 2021 at 11:40 AM Mike Dougherty via extropy-chat <<a href="mailto:extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org" target="_blank">extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="auto"><div><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Thu, Feb 11, 2021, 10:50 AM William Flynn Wallace via extropy-chat <<a href="mailto:extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org" target="_blank">extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:"comic sans ms",sans-serif;font-size:large;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><div style="margin-bottom:4px;color:rgb(40,40,41);font-family:-apple-system,system-ui,BlinkMacSystemFont,"Segoe UI",Roboto,Oxygen-Sans,Ubuntu,Cantarell,"Helvetica Neue",sans-serif;font-size:15px;box-sizing:border-box;display:flex"><div style="line-height:1.4;font-weight:bold;box-sizing:border-box;font-size:16px;word-break:break-word"><span><a href="https://www.quora.com/What-surprising-traits-behaviors-correlate-with-intelligence" style="background:transparent;outline:0px;display:block;box-sizing:border-box;border-radius:inherit;color:inherit" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank"><div style="box-sizing:border-box;display:flex"><div style="box-sizing:border-box;display:inline"><div style="box-sizing:border-box"><span style="box-sizing:border-box"><span style="background:none">What surprising traits/behaviors correlate with intelligence?</span></span></div></div></div></a></span></div></div><div style="color:rgb(40,40,41);font-family:-apple-system,system-ui,BlinkMacSystemFont,"Segoe UI",Roboto,Oxygen-Sans,Ubuntu,Cantarell,"Helvetica Neue",sans-serif;font-size:15px;box-sizing:border-box"><div style="box-sizing:border-box;max-width:100%"><span style="box-sizing:border-box"><p style="margin:0px 0px 1em;padding:0px;box-sizing:border-box;word-break:break-word;direction:ltr"><span style="background:none">Lots of things correlate with intelligence. Some are obvious and some not. Here is one list of correlates:</span></p><div><div style="box-sizing:border-box;margin-bottom:1em"><img src="https://qph.fs.quoracdn.net/main-qimg-09f44f33ed7d57a0ff17f434688ff929" style="border: 0px none; color: transparent; display: block; border-radius: 3px; box-sizing: border-box; max-width: 100%;"></div></div><p style="margin:0px;padding:0px;box-sizing:border-box;word-break:break-word;direction:ltr"></p></span></div></div></div></div></blockquote></div></div><div dir="auto">So does that really suggest dead babies aren't smart?</div></div>
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