It’s generally stupid to immediately change your mind about facts when a single person presents you with a single counterexample. If you don’t think animals make tools, and are shown a video of animals making tools, the first thing you should think of is “if that evidence is so definitive, there would be more than just a single video; I should be able to find it in an encyclopedia, a news article, or some other source which indicates that experts have accepted it”. Then you look it up, discover that that’s true, and then you accept it. After all, there could always be something wrong with the single example that isn’t immediately obvious. (For instance, do you remember offhand the definition of a tool in sufficient detail that you could determine that the video actually shows tools, just by looking at it?)
That is a lot more reasonable than what he actually did though. He just didn’t seem to acknowledge it at all and did not appear to be skeptical of it either. He was just like “Oh, okay. So as I was saying humans are special because we are the only ones who make tools.”
If he had wanted articles or something I could have found some for him very fast but he didn’t even ask or anything.
It’s generally stupid to immediately change your mind about facts when a single person presents you with a single counterexample. If you don’t think animals make tools, and are shown a video of animals making tools, the first thing you should think of is “if that evidence is so definitive, there would be more than just a single video; I should be able to find it in an encyclopedia, a news article, or some other source which indicates that experts have accepted it”. Then you look it up, discover that that’s true, and then you accept it. After all, there could always be something wrong with the single example that isn’t immediately obvious. (For instance, do you remember offhand the definition of a tool in sufficient detail that you could determine that the video actually shows tools, just by looking at it?)
That is a lot more reasonable than what he actually did though. He just didn’t seem to acknowledge it at all and did not appear to be skeptical of it either. He was just like “Oh, okay. So as I was saying humans are special because we are the only ones who make tools.”
If he had wanted articles or something I could have found some for him very fast but he didn’t even ask or anything.