Chimps outperform humans at memory task

I'm interested in why as we evolved we lost the powerful memory that the chimps seem to have. I figured something like that would be important, evolution didn't seem to think so. But hey I don't know much about evolution

@binaryfinary2005 I believe it's because not everything evolves in a linear fashion, example: Great apes do not seem to understand if humans point at something and know to look where the finger is pointed, seem unable to put themselves into the others' state of mind - but my dog does this all the time :)

There recently has been proof that chimps have empathy, that they, to some extent, know what an other chimpanzee is thinking. For example, when a chimp is hiding a fruit by digging placing it beneath the ground, the chimp first carefully watches his/her surrounding before it places the fruit beneath the ground, making sure no one else has seen it.

LIE!!!!!!!!!!! CHIMP ALREADY KNEW THE ANSWERS. LOL no it can't be the chimp outsmarted me lol.

Chimps are able to perform well here because (1) their minds are not inhibited by thought as ours are, (2) because of which they have pure awareness and (3) enabling them to directly deal with stimuli perceived by their senses.

With humans, sensory inputs trigger memories and emotions, which force our brains to process multiple data -- often irrelevant, wasting brain power.

Solving this problem and thus harnessing our brain power effectivey is the objective of all meditation.

You are quite an idiot. This does not show that chimps are better than us. This videos shows mainly 2 things: That the younger the age of a brain the more efficiently it functions, and chimps have much more control over their subconscious mind than we humans.

Humans have been evolving to be more conscious and logical than visual and artistic. Having photographic memory doesn't mean chimps are smarter, meaning they don't have problem solving abilities we do. They just remember things better.

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its disgusting that these animals are locked up in zoos considering they do have higher cognitive functions than some people think. no wonder they go insane in there. and to people who say that we are better cos we evolved into humans, it was a mutation, we didnt choose it or use our intellect to become what we are, u could just have easily been born a monkey. some of ye probably were.