http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/03/100324094640.htm
Science News
Great Apes Know They Could Be Wrong, Research Suggests
ScienceDaily (Mar. 24, 2010)
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Dr. Call concludes: “The current results indicate that the looking response appears to be a function of at least three factors: the cost of looking inside the tube, the value of the reward and the state of the information. The combination of these three factors creates an information processing system that possesses complexity, flexibility and control, three of the features of metacognition*. These findings suggest that nonhuman animals may possess some metacognitive abilities, too.”*Metacognition: cognition about cognition, or knowing about knowing.
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Sigh, I thought I was smart, but I could be wrong. Can some one explain this to me?
My tool set stopped at “thinking about thinking” with DeBono.
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Reinke Faces Life 