Humans: Natural-Born Teachers

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At 2:28 in this part I am glad to hear Ms. Saxe say it "seems" only humans do this. Other animals can see ultraviolet light or have infrared (heat) sensors and see stuff we cannot. They may also have methods of teaching or perception that we just haven't observed yet because we don't use those methods. We don't yet know how we work, only that other animals may work differently. We may be able to learn from them still, if we let them survive. Thanks for the post & the conversations it will start.

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yeah, she is a scientist and accepts as premises paradigms of the cognitive sciences and neurology.

As philosophers we have to be more skeptical. Then again, it sometimes seems to me now that philosophers are kibitzing over disciplines of science, merely trying to fill in the gaps.