Do you remember seeing that video on YouTube (more than a year old now) where they train a monkey to play a video game just by using its thoughts? Where the incentive mechanism is banana juice fed through a small pipe each time it does a good move. I remember someone commenting something like ‘The monkey’s thinking, there, I’ve fooled these humans into thinking they’ve tricked me’. Sometimes I feel something like that about domestication - where it’s in fact animals like dogs and cats that have tamed us and not the other way around!
Do you remember seeing that video on YouTube (more than a year old now) where they train a monkey to play a video game just by using its thoughts? Where the incentive mechanism is banana juice fed through a small pipe each time it does a good move. I remember someone commenting something like ‘The monkey’s thinking, there, I’ve fooled these humans into thinking they’ve tricked me’. Sometimes I feel something like that about domestication - where it’s in fact animals like dogs and cats that have tamed us and not the other way around!
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