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- From: minsky@media.mit.edu (Marvin Minsky)
- Newsgroups: sci.bio
- Subject: Re: norway starts hunting min
- Message-ID: <1992Dec24.050801.12346@news.media.mit.edu>
- Date: 24 Dec 92 05:08:01 GMT
- References: <1992Dec16.4259.6389@dosgate> <92Dec23.174104.27846@acs.ucalgary.ca>
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- In article <92Dec23.174104.27846@acs.ucalgary.ca> edstrom@hsc.ucalgary.ca (John Edstrom) writes:
- >In article <1992Dec16.4259.6389@dosgate> "andrew comello" <andrew.comello@canrem.com> writes:
- >>Newsgroup: sci.bio
- >>Subject: Norway starts hunting minke whales
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- >>In my own opinion, I feel that if you placed all of the animals and
- >>organisms of the earth on an IQ scale, the cetaceans would run a close
- >>second to man... Since they have the greatest IQ besides man, It would
- >>be MORALLY unjust to kill them....
- ...
- >Really? This sounds contentious. I would have nominated the
- >chimpanzee as the runner up. I'm not an expert but my impression is
- >that the chimp's intelligence has been underestimated and research
- >keeps revealing unsuspected abilities and complexities.
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- I have the impression that elephants are very smart -- never mind
- "IQ". Does anyone know how they compare to whales and chimps?
-