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- From: deblev@nimoy.ipac.caltech.edu (Debbie Levine)
- Newsgroups: rec.equestrian
- Subject: Re: Horse breakdown potential
- Date: 21 Nov 1992 02:04:29 GMT
- Organization: California Institute of Technology
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- In article <21730026@hpcss01.cup.hp.com> twv@hpcss01.cup.hp.com (Terry Von Gease) writes:
- >You have successfully disabused you mind of the notion that horses
- >are like puppy dogs and kitty cats. The next plateau will be reached
- >when you realize that horses are half-ton beasts with a brain about the
- >size of a walnut. They have marvelous personalities and they all are
- >characters. But don't confuse personality with intelligence. I've got
- >socks that are more intelligent than most horses.
-
- Those must be some pretty amazing socks.
-
- How do you define intelligence? How can you seperate personality
- from intelligence?
-
- Personally, I think inter-species intelligence comparisions have
- orders of magnitude less meaning, even, than IQ tests, which are
- fairly meaningless... Different species are "wired" differently
- and many of the arguments I have heard for horses being stupid and
- cats being smarter than dogs (and vice versa) were based on differences
- that grew out of different survival needs. Some human behavior looks
- pretty stupid, too, if you don't understand the context.
-
- Debbie
- deblev@ipac.caltech.edu
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