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The plight of the sense-making ape

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posted on 2023-06-08, 16:51 authored by David LeavensDavid Leavens
This is a selective review of the published literature on object-choice tasks, where participants use directional cues to find hidden objects. This literature comprises the efforts of researchers to make sense of the sense-making capacities of our nearest living relatives. This chapter is written to highlight some nonsensical conclusions that frequently emerge from this research. The data suggest that when apes are given approximately the same sense-making opportunities as we provide our children, then they will easily make sense of our social signals. The ubiquity of nonsensical contemporary scientific claims to the effect that humans are essentially--or inherently--more capable than other great apes in the understanding of simple directional cues is, itself, a testament to the power of preconceived ideas on human perception.

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Publication status

  • Published

Publisher

Palgrave Macmillan

Page range

81-104

Pages

344.0

Book title

Enactive cognition at the edge of sense-making: making sense of non-sense

Place of publication

Basingstoke

ISBN

9781137363350

Series

New directions in philosophy and cognitive science

Department affiliated with

  • Psychology Publications

Full text available

  • Yes

Peer reviewed?

  • Yes

Editors

Massimiliano Cappuccio, Tom Froese

Legacy Posted Date

2014-07-24

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