<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body dir="auto"><div dir="ltr">On Feb 12, 2021, at 10:29 AM, William Flynn Wallace via extropy-chat <extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org> wrote:</div><div dir="ltr"><blockquote type="cite"><span style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;"> What does it mean for a nervous system incapable of using language to be "smart" anyways?] Darin</span></blockquote></div><blockquote type="cite"><div dir="ltr"><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><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></div></blockquote><br><div>I was going to say problem-solving would be a good indicator, especially novel behaviors.</div><div><br></div><div>Regards,</div><div><br></div><div>Dan</div></body></html>