Other minds
What was on your mind today? 3 ways to communicate with someone who speaks a different language. Why you should learn a foreign language. What is prejudice?
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Our minds are unique, and unlike others’ minds. Intelligence can be many things. In today’s class, we’ll talk about some other minds very different from our own.
Octopi are intelligent animals, but very far apart from humans on the evolutionary tree. Their intelligence is not closely related to ours.
This researcher studied bird intelligence. She took care of this bird and taught it to speak. After 31 years, the bird finally died. It’s last words were “You be good, I love you. See you tomorrow.”
Language can be something that gets you a job or helps to pass a test. But language can also be something that helps us understand others.