Re: OT: Dolphin intelligence (Re: Origin of names (WAS: Re: Proto-Uralic?))

>That people are prejudiced, and have been so in the past, is no
>revelation.  But you cannot simply assume that something is true on
>the grounds that those who disagree might in principle be arguing out
>of prejudice.  That is the mentality of the conspiracy theorist.
This is true for me as well, though knowing that humans as a species seem to
enjoy practicing prejudice came forewarn someone that tests of any kind and
the evaluations of those tests are also subject to prejudices, narrowness of
concept, etc. ::shrug:: Can we as a species evaluate non-human intelligence
not based on environmental manipulation (e.g. tool making)? For me, this
wanders very close to my perpetual question as to whether I can conceive of
a truly non-human language-concept.

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