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dsign 15 hours ago [-]
> Speech is a crowning achievement of human evolution, the skill that separates us from every other animal. So, it would stand to reason that evolving this capability required some enormous leap in brain complexity.
I have this theory that researchers and science journalists' internal bias is a gradation between the huge shadow projected by millennia of religious culture and the huge shadow projected by the things we have learned recently. The quote above, particularly the term "leap", evokes intelligent design.
> Instead, evolution roughly tripled the number of neurons that connect the brain's mouth-movement control center with just two target regions.
This, on the other hand, outright sounds like scaling the size of the model, which is on the opposite direction of the bias axis. FWIW, my own bias also tends in this direction.
b3ing 10 hours ago [-]
Prairie dogs have a language but it’s not as robust as ours as far as we know. But they have nouns verbs and adjectives
jimnotgym 17 hours ago [-]
And if you read the article there is no link to audio of them singing. Google has lots of very similar articles, with no singing. YouTube has videos of them with no singing. Wikipedia has a tiny excerpt of them singing a bit.
Infuriating! First they tell you this mouse sings, then don't let you hear it???
I have this theory that researchers and science journalists' internal bias is a gradation between the huge shadow projected by millennia of religious culture and the huge shadow projected by the things we have learned recently. The quote above, particularly the term "leap", evokes intelligent design.
> Instead, evolution roughly tripled the number of neurons that connect the brain's mouth-movement control center with just two target regions.
This, on the other hand, outright sounds like scaling the size of the model, which is on the opposite direction of the bias axis. FWIW, my own bias also tends in this direction.
Infuriating! First they tell you this mouse sings, then don't let you hear it???
Finally:
https://youtu.be/eNc1PI4PkG0?si=LWCLU7AlXxqhM5pX
I didn't find a duet like the article suggested
While I'm on the subject of pet peeves, here's the same link without tracking: https://youtu.be/eNc1PI4PkG0
From the same guy, Arkarup Banerjee, postdoc to tenured