Are We Smart Enough to Know How Smart Animals Are?
Mentions in Episodes:
- Episode: Paul Rosolie: Jungle, Apex Predators, Aliens, Uncontacted Tribes, and God | Lex Fridman Podcast #429
Podcast: Lex Fridman PodcastYou go back to that Frans de Waal book, 'Are We Smart Enough to Know How Smart Animals Are?', there's so many incredible examples of controlled studies where the researchers didn't understand how to shed this insurmountably human perspective and recognize that there's other types of intelligence, whether that's in elephants or cats.