More evidence — should any still be needed — that intelligence isn’t limited to humans, or even to primates.
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“The Raven says “Who prepares the food for the Raven, when his young ones cry out to G-d?”” – Perek Shira (a Jewish book of hymns sung by the animals and nature.)
Whoops, that’s “Who prepares food for the Raven..(etc.)”
Um… non sequitur?
Just saying what came to mind when I read the article. 🙂
Apparently even the blog software thought you were a little nuts… it has been holding your last several comments for moderation. 😉
I checked and it’s apparently because “blogspot.com” is in its blacklist for some reason. I suggest you update your data to point to your new blog address.
It should be updated already, and I checked and it is.
Yes, on those two (the latest) comments it was. The earlier ones all have your older blogspot.com address on them.
There isn’t any way I could go back and fix that, is there?
I’ve fixed the three on this page for you, don’t recall if there were others.
Incidentally, ravens also fed Elisha (or was it Elijah? One of the two) the prophet. They’re portrayed as pretty smart. 🙂
From all the testing I’ve heard about (of which this is only a part), they’re regular animal Einsteins.
I read a long time ago that they were considered the smartest bird, apparently that’s a lot smarter than people thought really.
So it seems. I can’t figure out what evolutionary pressures drove them to that level of intelligence, though. It must help them in some statistically significant way, or they’d have dropped it by now.
Or maybe G-d created them that way. 😛
If you’re going to bring God into it, then I have to add that it’s just as likely that they were put here by superintelligent aliens that created life on this planet, to keep an eye on us. 😉
Yes… maybe so, but who created the aliens? 😉
Nobody created them, they’re eternal. Duh! 😉
Even scientists now say the universe isn’t eternal. (After a couple thousand years of Aristotle’s “scientific” position that the universe is eternal.)
Of course. The aliens are from outside the universe. Duh! 😉
Don’t the secret high-level cult member documents of L. Ron Hubbard’s cult have alien-race worship in them? I always knew you had a soft spot for Dianetics, and for his SF books, but this is going too far. 😉
Sorry, different alien race. I think those documents just blame that one for imprisoning souls on this planet, though I’ve only heard third-hand reports about them.
Yes, I admire Hubbard’s science fiction highly. Think about it, he actually managed to parley his own writing into a world-spanning organization, and with him at the top — televangelists have to plagiarize someone else’s fiction to do that. 😉
“The Raven says “Who prepares the food for the Raven, when his young ones cry out to G-d?”” – Perek Shira (a Jewish book of hymns sung by the animals and nature.)
Whoops, that’s “Who prepares food for the Raven..(etc.)”
Um… non sequitur?
Just saying what came to mind when I read the article. 🙂
Apparently even the blog software thought you were a little nuts… it has been holding your last several comments for moderation. 😉
I checked and it’s apparently because “blogspot.com” is in its blacklist for some reason. I suggest you update your data to point to your new blog address.
It should be updated already, and I checked and it is.
Yes, on those two (the latest) comments it was. The earlier ones all have your older blogspot.com address on them.
There isn’t any way I could go back and fix that, is there?
I’ve fixed the three on this page for you, don’t recall if there were others.
Incidentally, ravens also fed Elisha (or was it Elijah? One of the two) the prophet. They’re portrayed as pretty smart. 🙂
From all the testing I’ve heard about (of which this is only a part), they’re regular animal Einsteins.
I read a long time ago that they were considered the smartest bird, apparently that’s a lot smarter than people thought really.
So it seems. I can’t figure out what evolutionary pressures drove them to that level of intelligence, though. It must help them in some statistically significant way, or they’d have dropped it by now.
Or maybe G-d created them that way. 😛
If you’re going to bring God into it, then I have to add that it’s just as likely that they were put here by superintelligent aliens that created life on this planet, to keep an eye on us. 😉
Yes… maybe so, but who created the aliens? 😉
Nobody created them, they’re eternal. Duh! 😉
Even scientists now say the universe isn’t eternal. (After a couple thousand years of Aristotle’s “scientific” position that the universe is eternal.)
Of course. The aliens are from outside the universe. Duh! 😉
Don’t the secret high-level cult member documents of L. Ron Hubbard’s cult have alien-race worship in them? I always knew you had a soft spot for Dianetics, and for his SF books, but this is going too far. 😉
Sorry, different alien race. I think those documents just blame that one for imprisoning souls on this planet, though I’ve only heard third-hand reports about them.
Yes, I admire Hubbard’s science fiction highly. Think about it, he actually managed to parley his own writing into a world-spanning organization, and with him at the top — televangelists have to plagiarize someone else’s fiction to do that. 😉