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Old 01-28-2008, 12:43 PM   #1
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Congrats to the chimp, but they were obviously playing a game it was familiar with, as in trained on.
Not to mention, it has the luxury of devoting more of its brain to this one task. A very young kid can remember a positively stupid amount of stuff about literally hundreds of pokemon, because they (and the chimps) don't have to devote so many brain cells to knowing how to drive, and remembering to pay the mortgage, and recognizing the symptoms of an illness, and...
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Old 01-28-2008, 09:36 PM   #2
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Not to mention, it has the luxury of devoting more of its brain to this one task. ... they (and the chimps) don't have to devote so many brain cells to knowing how to drive, and remembering to pay the mortgage, and recognizing the symptoms of an illness, and...
Same reasoning: "my computer is running slow so I must erase crap from my disk drive." Many programs erased. Computer still runs slow. Of course. Human, who makes conclusions without first learning how things work, is stumped.

So Onyxcougar asks the above chimp for help. Instead, chimp bares teeth.

I have seen the future. It is defined by "Damn you! Damn you all to hell." Clearly that movie better explains how the brain works. First they win in games. Then ...
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