babies have the highest learning potential out of all the stages of human life. based on one definition of intelligence, the ability to learn, babies are, in fact, highly intelligent. the fact that they could learn so much from essentially nothing, so quickly, makes it justified to call them intelligent
Learning ability is just that. Nothing to do with intelligence. Nor do I not have a vendetta against babies, just people making idiotic claims and missattributing desirable traits because they thing something's cute.
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· 8 years ago
The baby in the video CLEARLY figured out that it gets picked when he puts his head down on the cat. That's intelligence
No that is not intelligence. That is learning, based on trial and error, and what it learned requires basically no intelligence to understand. Pretty much anything in the animal kingdom could do that.
No it fucking isn't. Learning is learning. Intelligence is reasoning. High level reasoning. Babies are not smart, and certainly not smarter than adaults as per your definition. I think you are confusing the actual definition of smart, with any number of common misuses of the word.
Right, I forgot that not ogling over something "cute" like that, then objecting when people use in accurate positive terminology makes you an idiot. Unlike the people who don't seem to know what words like intelligence mean. But then again how could you?
Fair enough I suppose. However on Wikipedia, I'd does mention that there is controversy over the definition, as well as mine. And the word as it is most commonly used follows that definition, which in the vaguest terms is high level reasoning. Which this is not.
ok so when are cats not adopted?