It’s only fun until a cat gets his face permanently stuck in that glass.
Who is smarter? Cats look more willing to use their paws than dogs. Maybe a lot of problem solving “intelligence” is tied to physical capabilities. Dogs tended to run in packs and take down prey by biting. Their paws were more just for walking on. Cats use their claws more, so wouldn’t a cat be more inclined to use her paws more to solve problems? Dogs have an incredible sense of smell. I’d think the combination of smell with sight and hearing would give them a different way of approaching situations and problems than humans or cats have. Cats are more flexible, more agile, so maybe they have better spatial understanding than dogs. They know which jumps or falls they can make and how to make them. I’m just guessing though.
Border Collie dogs and Abyssinian cats are often regarded as the smartest breeds of each. It’d be interesting to see how they perform.
Nonapod on October 18, 2024 at 10:52 am said:
Border Collie dogs and Abyssinian cats are often regarded as the smartest breeds of each. It’d be interesting to see how they perform.
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I don’t know about the cats, but the Border Collies would have a perfectly aligned row of glasses at the end.
When you see a cat or dog’s skull it’s surprising how little room for brain there is. A cat’s brain is about the size of a walnut, and a dog’s about the size of a tangerine.
A cat has 200 – 300 million neurons in its brain, a dog 500 – 600 million, a human about 16 billion.
Certainly both animals show personality differences and are able to learn things, though training cats takes a lot more time. But I think it much more likely that most of their behaviors we interpret as evidence of intelligence are us reading that into it. It’s very easy to remember the “smart” things your pet does and forget the thousands more “dumb” things, or just explain them away. You even see this at work in the ape sign-language studies, despite being run by professionals who should know better.
To be fair, neuron count isn’t a perfect measure of the relative intelligence of different animals. Supposedly Orca’s have a significantly larger number of forebrain neurons than humans, and while Orca’s certainly seem pretty smart relative to most other animals, I have yet to see one build and launch and catch a 400 foot tall rocket. But I guess a lack of opposable thumbs might make such a feet difficult.
My Cats, all of them, way smarter than and Dog.
Just got info on changes to our Med Advantage Plan. Things are going up. Out of pocket ext from 4900 to 5500. PET scan 195 to 330, same for other scans. I think people will be shocked at the overall increases.
Know there are many here interested in the history of science. I just came across this article which I think is a particularly good history of black holes.
I remember an interview with Freeman Dyson, where he talked about finally getting to meet and work a bit with his hero Einstein. Dyson was very interested in black holes and was terribly disappointed that Einstein didn’t even want to talk about them. This essay helps explain why that was.
Anyone who knows border collies — I’ve had three, and have one now — would merely laugh when asked this question.
Factoid: If you point at something with an ape present, the ape won’t know what you’re doing.
If you point at something with a border collie present, the BC will look at what you’re pointing at.
He was found with a weapon, a flak jacket and 40,000 shekels (£8,250).
‘Yahya Sinouar had a lot of cash and fake passports on him, he was ready to flee,’ Israeli army spokesman Colonel Olivier Rafowicz told French outlet CNEWS this morning.
He claimed that the items Sinwar had on him, which allegedly also included a card from UNRWA, the UN aid for Palestinian refugees, ‘may show that he was ready to flee and leave Gaza and his men behind.’
Had a show champion dog once that cats would freeze upon seeing it. He had a ‘Classic‘ ear crop—maybe called a “Show Crop” now (?), but it left his ears standing up about 4-5 inches—Spike looked like a gargoyle w/o wings, and was blue brindle ‘n white. Bred Pitt Bulls/Am Staffs for a long time. ‘Chain Gang‘ (or 1/4″ steel aircraft cable) dogs.
There are an incredible number of hand & finger commands for a dog. Whistle commands. Voice commands. They can be trained to attack, to find drugs, to find dead bodies, etc.
Maybe Harris’s “I won’t explain any of my positions but it’s all Trump’s fault” Fox interview has done her damage.
Or maybe the interview did nothing to halt her downward trend.
But she’s in trouble, folks. Trump is now ahead in all seven battleground states and only 1.4% behind Harris nationally. Trump leads Harris 60-40% in the Polymarket betting odds.
Compared to 2016 and 2020, these are remarkable numbers.
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Let me repeat here, for those who didn’t see it, “AesopFan’s” link from yesterday to Jonathan Turley’s comments about the Baier-Harris interview.
https://jonathanturley.org/2024/10/17/i-will-follow-the-law-harris-adopts-a-purely-pedestrian-view-of-the-presidency-in-fox-interview/
New post: The Cuban Missile Crisis, as Viewed From a Soviet Launch Facility
https://chicagoboyz.net/archives/72054.html
It’s only fun until a cat gets his face permanently stuck in that glass.
Who is smarter? Cats look more willing to use their paws than dogs. Maybe a lot of problem solving “intelligence” is tied to physical capabilities. Dogs tended to run in packs and take down prey by biting. Their paws were more just for walking on. Cats use their claws more, so wouldn’t a cat be more inclined to use her paws more to solve problems? Dogs have an incredible sense of smell. I’d think the combination of smell with sight and hearing would give them a different way of approaching situations and problems than humans or cats have. Cats are more flexible, more agile, so maybe they have better spatial understanding than dogs. They know which jumps or falls they can make and how to make them. I’m just guessing though.
Border Collie dogs and Abyssinian cats are often regarded as the smartest breeds of each. It’d be interesting to see how they perform.
Nonapod on October 18, 2024 at 10:52 am said:
Border Collie dogs and Abyssinian cats are often regarded as the smartest breeds of each. It’d be interesting to see how they perform.
________
I don’t know about the cats, but the Border Collies would have a perfectly aligned row of glasses at the end.
When you see a cat or dog’s skull it’s surprising how little room for brain there is. A cat’s brain is about the size of a walnut, and a dog’s about the size of a tangerine.
A cat has 200 – 300 million neurons in its brain, a dog 500 – 600 million, a human about 16 billion.
Certainly both animals show personality differences and are able to learn things, though training cats takes a lot more time. But I think it much more likely that most of their behaviors we interpret as evidence of intelligence are us reading that into it. It’s very easy to remember the “smart” things your pet does and forget the thousands more “dumb” things, or just explain them away. You even see this at work in the ape sign-language studies, despite being run by professionals who should know better.
To be fair, neuron count isn’t a perfect measure of the relative intelligence of different animals. Supposedly Orca’s have a significantly larger number of forebrain neurons than humans, and while Orca’s certainly seem pretty smart relative to most other animals, I have yet to see one build and launch and catch a 400 foot tall rocket. But I guess a lack of opposable thumbs might make such a feet difficult.
My Cats, all of them, way smarter than and Dog.
Just got info on changes to our Med Advantage Plan. Things are going up. Out of pocket ext from 4900 to 5500. PET scan 195 to 330, same for other scans. I think people will be shocked at the overall increases.
Know there are many here interested in the history of science. I just came across this article which I think is a particularly good history of black holes.
https://aeon.co/essays/mathematics-is-the-only-way-we-have-of-peering-into-a-black-hole
I remember an interview with Freeman Dyson, where he talked about finally getting to meet and work a bit with his hero Einstein. Dyson was very interested in black holes and was terribly disappointed that Einstein didn’t even want to talk about them. This essay helps explain why that was.
Anyone who knows border collies — I’ve had three, and have one now — would merely laugh when asked this question.
Factoid: If you point at something with an ape present, the ape won’t know what you’re doing.
If you point at something with a border collie present, the BC will look at what you’re pointing at.
No idea what a cat would do.
’A picture is worth a thousand words’
Was Yahya Sinwar out of his tunnel in an attempt to flee Gaza?
Cash and Fake Passports
Had a show champion dog once that cats would freeze upon seeing it. He had a ‘Classic‘ ear crop—maybe called a “Show Crop” now (?), but it left his ears standing up about 4-5 inches—Spike looked like a gargoyle w/o wings, and was blue brindle ‘n white. Bred Pitt Bulls/Am Staffs for a long time. ‘Chain Gang‘ (or 1/4″ steel aircraft cable) dogs.
There are an incredible number of hand & finger commands for a dog. Whistle commands. Voice commands. They can be trained to attack, to find drugs, to find dead bodies, etc.
Maybe Harris’s “I won’t explain any of my positions but it’s all Trump’s fault” Fox interview has done her damage.
Or maybe the interview did nothing to halt her downward trend.
But she’s in trouble, folks. Trump is now ahead in all seven battleground states and only 1.4% behind Harris nationally. Trump leads Harris 60-40% in the Polymarket betting odds.
Compared to 2016 and 2020, these are remarkable numbers.