Chimps can suss out recursive puzzles where you have color-coded keys and locks, and you need to unlock Box A to get Key B to unlock Box B to get Key C to unlock Box C which contains food. They even choose the right box to unlock when one chain leads to the food and the other doesn’t.
Sorry, there’s not a difference of kind to be found here.
How much training is necessary for them to do this? Humans can reason this out without any training, if the chimps had to be trained substantially (e.g. first starting with one box, being rewarded with food, then starting with two boxes, etc.) then I think this would constitute a difference.
Well, one could argue that humans “train” for similar problems throughout their lives… Would you expect a feral child to figure that out straight away?
Chimps can suss out recursive puzzles where you have color-coded keys and locks, and you need to unlock Box A to get Key B to unlock Box B to get Key C to unlock Box C which contains food. They even choose the right box to unlock when one chain leads to the food and the other doesn’t.
Sorry, there’s not a difference of kind to be found here.
How much training is necessary for them to do this? Humans can reason this out without any training, if the chimps had to be trained substantially (e.g. first starting with one box, being rewarded with food, then starting with two boxes, etc.) then I think this would constitute a difference.
Well, one could argue that humans “train” for similar problems throughout their lives… Would you expect a feral child to figure that out straight away?
But then, there are plenty of examples of chimps exhibiting behavior that implies intelligence.