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Monkeys could probably tell us a lot about ourselves - Sexual chocolate - 29-01-2026
Certain great apes are highly territorial, get jealous, play status games etc. and its all out in the open to study. You dont need to filter behaviour through language and thus much less is lost in translation. If I wanted to know why we go to war I would rather study chimps and maybe gorillas for 6 months rather than have a conversation with Napoleon, since Napoleon would carry the prejudices of his time invariably, as war is never justified for its own sake in Human civilisational history. Muslims go to war for a caliphate sanctioned by Muhammad, Hindus go to war for "Dharma" , Christians for the Pope and the Vatican etc. While for Chimps you can for example take notice of when war actually sets off, maybe its in the summer when testosterone is higher but so is mate avaialability (females get more in heat as well), resources arent scare but then why war? Status seems to be valenced higher than resource guarding and protection going completely against the English Utilitarians.
RE: Monkeys could probably tell us a lot about ourselves - mvp2 - 29-01-2026
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RE: Monkeys could probably tell us a lot about ourselves - Iblameher - 29-01-2026
Chimps have insane working memory recall and I remember watching a vid where they were able to recall multiple digits in a short time frames, they also corrected themselves when they misplaced the input or if the cursor didn't move properly
Of course, the ability of long term knowledge retention and language is unparalleled
RE: Monkeys could probably tell us a lot about ourselves - Sexual chocolate - 29-01-2026
(29-01-2026, 07:53 AM)Rarity Wrote: Chimps have insane working memory recall and I remember watching a vid where they were able to recall multiple digits in a short time frames, they also corrected themselves when they misplaced the input or if the cursor didn't move properly
Of course, the ability of long term knowledge retention and language is unparalleled
yeah, its scary good. You see this kind of wizardry even in Australian Aborigines, Spengler notes their evaluation of physical space is at a much higher level than Europeans or any other race, thus leading to their eventual intuition and creation of the boomerang. However FWIW I think the capacity for long term planning is just much more important on the evolutionary scale, which is why we are at the apex and chimps arent.
RE: Monkeys could probably tell us a lot about ourselves - Altruist - 29-01-2026
(29-01-2026, 07:53 AM)Rarity Wrote: Chimps have insane working memory recall and I remember watching a vid where they were able to recall multiple digits in a short time frames, they also corrected themselves when they misplaced the input or if the cursor didn't move properly
Of course, the ability of long term knowledge retention and language is unparalleled
They are also great at basketball
RE: Monkeys could probably tell us a lot about ourselves - mvp2 - 29-01-2026
there isnt much of a logical reason to why wars happens, but ive learned of a hermetic mirroring between the transits of the planets and 'war.' for now, the skies are mirroring 470 a.C, and thats in its totality. for other times that have had a similarity in planetary transits there is the 1860s (neptune in aries) 1770s (pluto in aquarius) and 1940s (uranus in gemini, saturn in aries) - for now however (2026-2032) its all at the same time and kind of hasnt happened for so long, so its a rare planetary configuration. i find that it if we take by a 80~+3 years cycle that it ties to strauss-howe generational theory as well (cyclical time, cyclical wars) - this makes things very fatalistic too, so a disenchantment there is...