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Old 02-28-2008, 10:19 PM
Chris Noble Chris Noble is offline
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You surprised me with a good interview!
Very interesting and compared to most of your shows little to disagree with.

I did find Dr Coren' statement "For all intents and purposes, a dog has a mind which is about the equivalent of a, a human two year old child." to be overly general. It depends on what tests you perform. I wouldn't be surprised if there were some "intelligence" tests where dogs could outperform adult humans.

Working memory of numerals in chimpanzees

I would have liked you to ask Dr Coren about the possible natural means to explain the pattern seen in Sheldrake's experiments.

The dog was obviously paying a great deal of attention to the comings and goings of its owner and I find it hard to believe that it was as stupid as Sheldrake seems to assume.

Only a small number of Sheldrake's trials had random and blind return times. Even in these cases the differences in the return times was very small.

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