Intellegence in Nature

In the mid eighties I worked at the University Of Rochester as  a research programmer in computer vision. One day a scientist from the medical school asked if I wanted to come over and look at working for him on the side in helping with some experiments. I went over and he took me to the lab where he had a monkey strapped into a chair. The skullcap had been partially removed. Sensors were placed into the brain and the monkey was awake and shown visual stimuli. Would I help with the experiment. I had a small child and really needed the money at the time but I did not need it that much.

I am currently reading Jeremy Narby's "Intellegence in Nature" and he is mentioning Descartes's disbelief that animals felt pain and his dissecting on them while alive. It makes me shudder and reminds me of the day in the lab.

Now, do plants feel pain?

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[roselyn relles]

what? intellegence main idea