Chimps can count

Chimps counting in order, faster than you could

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[jasonhoblin]

pattern recognition is not the same as quantitative understanding.

[yrvelouria]

I agree, in fact I suspect the reason they can do this so fast is because they do not understand the meaning of the symbols in the same sense as us. That said, chimps can understand the difference between various quantities.

[djancak]

What is more sad and ironic? The fact that you act like you know what I think and your obvious lack of scientific understanding. Go learn something about the cosmos and then you can start arguing against big bang theory and evolution. Until then, you're nothing more than a chimp who has been taught to repeat patterns of christian nonsense.

Also, adding "True" in front of "Jesus Christ" doesn't make him either true or real.

[djancak]

Here is a summary of your logic: This study was done at Tokyo University They look like they care Therefor it is true

This kind of thinking is why so many people become brainwashed by superstition and hoaxes.

These monkeys are NOT counting. If I say 'banana, apple, coconut, pear' I have recited a list. If I say 'one, two, three, four' or 'uno, dos, tres, quatro' I have recited a list. If I say the lists above contain four items, THEN I have counted.

[djancak]

And I am warning you. The worst sin that can be committed is wasting your existence and encouraging others to do the same. The idea that god would put us in the universe with a brain to do nothing more than worship his slain and resurrected son is absurd.

Even more ironic - I am closer to god than you, as I am more familiar with the structure and function of his creation than you.

If there were a god, I say he should be ashamed of anyone who wastes his gift of reason on your silly beliefs.

[maxtube22]

You were warned. Jesus died to offer us salvation from the wrath due us eternally for our sins.

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[maxtube22]

Do you feel better about yourself now?

Why is it sad and ironic when all you think you are is a random speck of chance floating around in a meaningless universe? Now what is more sad and ironic?

Don't take your deluded conclusions about the True Jesus Christ with you to the grave or you will be eternally sorry.

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[vxvid]

It's not a problem to bleive something if it matches your previous experience.

You seem to think that people will make incredible effort just to fool you into believeing something like this. It makes more sense that they are making this effort to study what interests them.

Earnest Hemmingway said in one of his stories, 'A man can only know as much as he can believe'. Think about that. If you doubt everything, then your knowledge will be limited. But if you use discretion, you can learn

[djancak]

You are correct. The monkey is NOT counting. I see from your profile that you are a Christian, and I find it very sad and ironic that agnostics and atheists are looking at these videos and making the same kind of such easily disproven conclusions as your religion has.

[djancak]

there's the problem: you 'believe' it.

and just because 'they look like they really care about what they are doing' doesn't mean that they're doing it right.

[vxvid]

I posted a video showing the chimp matching the number to the number of dots he sees. If this is a hoax that relys on pattern recognition, how would you explain this video?

It does seem hard to believe, but after reading the University of Tokyo website where these studies were done, I believe it. The people you see don't look like people who would fake this kind of thing. They look like they really care about what they are doing.

[maxtube22]

This is a hoax and fraudulent news item trying to manipulate truth to the public into blindly accepting ape-human evolutionary theories. The chimp has no idea what numbers are or how to add random numbers, all he has been taught is how to repeat a sequence which over a long period of time he has been able to put into memory by use of sound and food reinforcement, the same types of tricks you can teach other animals to do over time. The chimp is NOT COUNTING, the chimp is REPEATING PATTERNS.