Posted on 07/23/2011 6:12:27 PM PDT by Kid Shelleen
In the early 70s, a primate named Nim Chimpsky was the subject of an experiment whose purpose was to learn whether language is innate. Now, his strange life has been turned into a documentary by Man on Wire director James Marsh.
Whether he's zooming past in a pushchair, perched on a lavatory seat or getting a little too intimate with a passing cat, it's impossible not to be charmed by Nim the chimpanzee. Nim Chimpsky, to give him his full title, was born at the Institute for Primate Studies in Norman, Oklahoma, in the early 70s. Highly intelligent, he was chosen to be the subject of a language experiment at Columbia University, called Project Nim, that aimed to discover whether or not chimpanzees could use grammar to create sentences
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Now that is funny, LOL
Hell those Libyan ragtags needs that man, the will advance. LOL
Undoubtedly the chimp’s name was a take-off of Choamsky’s. But the chimp is better looking and likely more intelligent.
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Yes, and Chimpsky thinks that Chomsky is an idiot.
Probably smells better too.
Dang beat me to it!!!!
Consider for a moment that every species with a brain, and especially those with a layered brain, have a range of intelligence. If the human species has Einsteins and Hawkings, can we dismiss that other species do not also? We do that, dismiss them as merely animals, because we are the weaker species in love, high in intellect but very lacking in empathetic love.
I live on a farm. One year a cow gave birth to what I can only describe as a very smart calf. I named him Einstein. The farm was no longer being run by my family, so the fate of the animals was not in my hands. I could go on and on about the things Einstein did that made him so different from the other cattle, but in the end, sadly, the people running the farm wanted females, to bear young ones for profits. Einstein was sent to the scrotum snippers and later to auction.
I sometimes imagine that Einstein gave whomever acquired him a little bit of hell. He could master locks and chains and fence gates. He had a refined sense of smell, so that medicines delivered in 'watering troughs' he would not touch. And he appeared to understand some human words, as he proved the day they came to try and coax him into the cattle trailer for transport to the vet for inoculations and snipping.
My old heart aches for the animals we take so crassly for granted. The cattle show they know they're about to be slaughtered when they tremble at the meat processing ramp.
What the hell was God thinking when he made us so damned cold in our hearts? ... Or is it we who have chilled the warm hearts of the children? ever seen the training videos of Palestinian training their littlest children to hate and slaughter, so they can oppose 'the Jews'? Yet we question where God commanded Saul to take no booty, no living thing from certain of the Israelite's enemies.
To me, such a film is more illustrative of the people trying to project human qualities on a chimp than it shows of chimp nature. The story made me think of that case up in CT, where the woman kept an adult male chimp in her house, in a situation that was frankly disturbing, at least until it was ended with the tragic disfigurement of her friend.
If Nim is a male chimp they are lucky he didn’t go ape sh**(no pun intended)and start biting and killing male humans as many male chimps have done.
Chimps are good shots too.
S African soldiers give chimp AK-47:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GhxqIITtTtU
What an insightful post. Thanks for sharing.
Thank you for understanding ... but I need to stop that sort of deep personal revelation stuff.
Thank you for pinging me.
As I like to say “Those eyes are not just there for decoration. There is someone looking at you through those eyes.”
The Vedas teach that every living being is an eternal soul. The consciousness level is different in different species obviously, and even among the same species.
The cruelty exhibited by so many humans is the result of envy towards God, the hearts are coarsened and hardened, and the more cruel acts, the more dirty the hearts become.
That is why this world is so painful, no other reason.
The good thing is that with God all things are possible, so individual redemption is always an open door. I pray that more and more humans will know this to be true.
I happen to believe that life is sourced in an actual dimension as real as dimension space or dimension time. The dimension of life force has three variable expressions: will, emotion, and mind (cognition). As such, life is sourced beyond time and space, thus life is ‘timeless’ ... and spirit is also, but I won’t again toddle off into that discussion, on the Internet. It hurts my old heart to see humans treating animals as nothing, mere meat. God gave to us the power to consume them as out sustenance, but we need not dismiss them as nothing but meat.
My studies (which are prayerful study, not just theoretical,) show that the soul is an eternal spark, emanating from and created by God, and can never be killed or destroyed; it is of a different energy that the physical body or even mental ideas or thoughts.
As such, each body is inhabited by an eternal soul, with (for most) an invisible and unbreakable connection to God, but covered with wrong desires (those that are in opposition to God’s will) and the physical body. The more a person desires to surrender the will, in love, to God, the more the person can experience his real existence as soul - and becomes a sort of witness to the body and the vagaries of the mental state. Like sitting on the bank of a stream, watching it go by.
It hurts my old heart as well; I cannot read anything about cruelty to animals (or children, or the elderly or infirm), it’s like ripping out my own heart.
Selah. Sister.
((Big Hug!))
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