{"id":885,"date":"2008-09-03T19:00:37","date_gmt":"2008-09-03T18:00:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/180.211.110.195:8082\/biestmilch\/archives\/2008\/09\/03\/einstein-the-parrot-talks-at-ted.html"},"modified":"2016-04-30T10:28:09","modified_gmt":"2016-04-30T09:28:09","slug":"einstein-the-parrot-talks-at-ted","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.biestmilch.com\/blog\/2008\/09\/03\/einstein-the-parrot-talks-at-ted\/","title":{"rendered":"Einstein, the parrot, talks at TED"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Birds are brilliant brains. For decades science underestimated them. Analyzing their brain, they badly misjudged it. The massive forebrain and cortex they interpreted as stem ganglia, a brain structure and formation that may not allow more than a vegetative state of being. How wrong we have been. How wrong may we still be in our judgment of other beings. The paradigm of Darwin&#8217;s pyramid makes us blind and arrogant. Listen to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ted.com\/index.php\/talks\/einstein_the_parrot_talks_and_squawks.html\" title=\"TED talk\">Einstein&#8217;s talk<\/a>. Einstein gives us all reasons to reconsider our position. <!--cut and paste--><\/p>\n<p><object classid=\"clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000\" codebase=\"http:\/\/download.macromedia.com\/pub\/shockwave\/cabs\/flash\/swflash.cab#version=6,0,40,0\" id=\"VE_Player\" width=\"320\" height=\"285\" align=\"center\"><param name=\"id\" value=\"VE_Player\" \/><param name=\"width\" value=\"320\" \/><param name=\"height\" value=\"285\" \/><param name=\"bgcolor\" value=\"#FFFFFF\" \/><param name=\"align\" value=\"center\" \/><param name=\"flashvars\" value=\"bgColor=FFFFFF&amp;file=http:\/\/static.videoegg.com\/ted\/movies\/EinsteinTheParrot_2006-embed-[None]_high.flv&amp;autoPlay=false&amp;fullscreenURL=http:\/\/static.videoegg.com\/ted\/flash\/fullscreen.html&amp;forcePlay=false&amp;logo=&amp;allowFullscreen=true\" \/><param name=\"quality\" value=\"high\" \/><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\" \/><param name=\"scale\" value=\"noscale\" \/><param name=\"wmode\" value=\"window\" \/><param name=\"src\" value=\"http:\/\/static.videoegg.com\/ted2\/flash\/loader.swf\" \/><embed type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" id=\"VE_Player\" width=\"320\" height=\"285\" bgcolor=\"#FFFFFF\" align=\"center\" flashvars=\"bgColor=FFFFFF&amp;file=http:\/\/static.videoegg.com\/ted\/movies\/EinsteinTheParrot_2006-embed-[None]_high.flv&amp;autoPlay=false&amp;fullscreenURL=http:\/\/static.videoegg.com\/ted\/flash\/fullscreen.html&amp;forcePlay=false&amp;logo=&amp;allowFullscreen=true\" quality=\"high\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" scale=\"noscale\" wmode=\"window\" src=\"http:\/\/static.videoegg.com\/ted2\/flash\/loader.swf\"><\/embed><\/object><\/p>\n<p>Einstein, the African grey parrot, has a vocabulary of more than 200 words and sounds; she can perform nearly half on cue. At least, this is what we know about her, perhaps there is much more than that.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Birds are brilliant brains. For decades science underestimated them. Analyzing their brain, they badly misjudged it. The massive forebrain and cortex they interpreted as stem ganglia, a brain structure and formation that may not allow more than a vegetative state of being. How wrong we have been. How wrong may we still be in our [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2294],"tags":[122,36,300,301,302,75,63],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biestmilch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/885"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biestmilch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biestmilch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biestmilch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biestmilch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=885"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.biestmilch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/885\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5652,"href":"https:\/\/www.biestmilch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/885\/revisions\/5652"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biestmilch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=885"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biestmilch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=885"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biestmilch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=885"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}