On Wed, 2005-05-25 at 00:36 -0500, William L. Jarrold wrote: > > Correct. That's how my research is related to human (vs primate) > > emotion. Primates cannot conceive of other agents as having goals. > > Hence, a goal pair is the simplest truly human way of conceiving of > > goals in a situation. > > Well, I think there are studies of primates conceiving of other agents > having goals. (I am willing to bet money on the truth of the previous > sentence) If not, there soon will be. Thanks to Decartes, we are > still under the belief that animals are stupider than they really are.
Perhaps the studies are relatively recent. I invite you to read "The Cultureal Origins of Human Cognition" by Michael Tomasello. Tomasello has also written a book titled "Primate Cognition" (which I haven't read) so it seems likely that he knows what he's talking about. Since Tomasello identifies "shared attention" as the key human trait, I expect that his research would be of interest to anybody interested in autism. -- If you are an American then support http://fairtax.org (Permanently replace 50,000+ pages of tax law with about 200 pages.)
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