But you wont find intellect in the brain

[inocente]

but rather that they encode surrounding landmarks in order to reach the goal and then use the visual features of the goal as confirmation that they have arrived at the correct location.

That’s excellent, thanks. They seem to have a better system than GPS for their purposes. I’m not sure if hummingbirds have been tested, but birds in general also see more colors than us. As well as seeing into UV, they can discern red/greens that we only see as yellow.

It would be humbling to sit inside a hummer’s brain for a while. Wish we had them here, but we do get hoopoes and bee eaters.

 

[GEddie]

It would be humbling to sit inside a hummer’s brain for a while.

Not really, as by switching to that brain you would give up your human intellect, which will not fit therein. So all sense of “humbleness” and the like would zero out.

ICXC NIKA

 

[inocente]

Not really, as by switching to that brain you would give up your human intellect, which will not fit therein. So all sense of “humbleness” and the like would zero out.

Yes, I was just trying to get ronnie to post again.

 

[ronnie_bonigli]

Yes, I was just trying to get ronnie to post again.

what’s up inocente? I been hanging in the World New section. btw all this talk about being inside a hummer’s brain kind of reminds me of Thomas Nagel’s classic “What is it Like to Be a Bat?”

instruct.westvalley.edu/lafave/nagel_nice.html

you could say “there’s something that it is like* to be *a hummer”

 

[inocente]

I been hanging in the World New section.

Hiya, know what you mean, this section is in silly season.

First saw the bat business reading a history of the idea of consciousness from Kant to date. It seems that philosophers didn’t really come up with anything yet except a list of definitions, of which there are around 18. There’s something that it is like to be bats.