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Different kinds of minds

Submitted by Paul Grobstein on Mon, 05/24/2010 - 4:24pm.

Are birds smarter than mathematicians? 

For more about the game being played, see Making sense of understanding: the three doors of Serendip.   Betcha its possible to make an implementation of this that would make humans as good as pigeons at it, ie that humans have the same abilities pigeons have but allow thinking to get in the way.

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