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I watched it like thrice and it only got better and more fascinating on every rewatch.

I don't want to sound rude, but have you actually looked at the chart?

Umm actually ☝️🤓

Great question, let's dig into this! Federico Fellini's 8½ is a sequel to his previous hit film Se7en, and its protagonists are a group of eight friends. One of the friends becomes a father, and his baby counts as the "½" in the title. The group gets into various crazy adventures, such as being a failed film director, fantasising about hot women, having mommy issues, and hating religion. The overall message may be summarised as: friendship is magic.

Do you have any further questions on French New Wave films?

It’s new evidence that cows are capable of what we (humans broadly) previously thought them incapable of. It’s important because it’s a concrete indicator that there’s more going on in cow brains than humans have generally assumed.

As I said, perhaps this is surprising only because we understand brains overly mechanically. As if it's assumed that there's a hard "can/can't do" switch for particular mental actions, while in reality any ability may be a result of various factors within the individual brain and outside of it aligning together (including, of course, the cow in question being a pet, so having a very comfortable lifestyle). If people can vary wildly in their mental abilities and inclinations, why wouldn't animals?

That's a fair point. On the other hand, Veronika is described as a pet, which might mean she's not even being milked, and her lifestyle is perhaps more conductive to letting her experiment and learn about her environment than usual.

Still, we haven't been treated cows that horribly until relatively recently (not to say that older practices were particularly humane either), and there's probably a solid number of cows living outside of that system, so I'd still expect something like tool usage being noticed sooner than 2026. Which is of course a subjective impression, there may be other, better explanations...

We have NO IDEA what differences make such things unique.

What do you mean by this? Make what things unique? Why do we have to understand the differences to be sure that the outcome is unique?

To pretend it is our gift alone is to be a self-centered piece of shit.

I also think you're a piece of shit, if I may respond directly to this indirect insult; now, can we get back to talking normally?

Doesn't the fact that this is news also kind of diminish its importance? We've lived with cows for so many generations, there are millions of cows out there, and there's just one single cow that we've seen being this smart. Most of them would still count as stupid, if this is proof of intelligence.

OTOH I also get the impression this is news in part because we(?) kind of overrated the trait of using tools and doing basic planning as a sign of substantial intelligence, assuming a large technical/biological gap between being and not being able to do it. Animal brains are, I would suppose, not so hard-wired and predefined as we thought, and individual specimen can be more or less creative and smart.

It wasn’t even 400 years ago that Newton was explaining what gravity is, and 400 years is a damn blip on the evolutionary scale of a species that can live 100+ years.

But that's just further proof that we are special. In just some 5000 years we broke the nature meta countless times, and we're doing it again and again faster and faster, we're so fucking smart we're doing the Paleoproterozoic extinction ("Oxygen holocaust") all over again.

>NFT monkey pfp

>dogshit take

Who'd have thought!

Is this loss?

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