- Will Rodman is a scientist who succeeded in developing a cure for Alzheimer's disease, brain volume shrinkage in humans. But the drug is not tested on humans, but to an ape.
Macaques are used as a guinea pig named Caesar. The drug proved to have side effects, namely Caesar genetically alter a human-like. He thinks like a person and as smart as humans.
Caesar, who cared for since infancy, is able to learn quickly. He knew the words and body language. Because of fear of their versatility, the city authorities ordered the shut Caesar.
- However, with a high level of intelligence, Caesar was blurred. He then releases the cure for Alzheimer's gas into the enclosure that held thousands of apes with him.
- Like Caesar, their intelligence increased. Thousands of monkeys that get together and make the revolution. The war between humans and apes unavoidable. Recessive human and ape eventually became the dominant species on earth.
It's a little story from a science fiction movie Rise of the Planet of the Apes by director Rupert Wyatt. The film tells the extinction of the human species on earth was simultaneously playing in theaters in the United States began August 5, 2011.
That story is just imagination "crazy" filmmaker in Hollywood. But, make no mistake, scientists from Columbia University did an experiment "similar" to a monkey in the decade 1970.
In a project named Nim's, scientists taught monkeys of this type behave like humans and chimps think like humans. The goal is to see if chimpanzees can learn human language.
After a few years to teach an ape named Nim Chimpsky live like humans, scientists do not get the expected results. Nim could only say in sign language, "Give orange me give eat orange me eat orange give me eat orange give me you."
The scientists concluded, although Nim able to express himself and expresses himself in sign language, like asking for orange and knows 125 words, he could not arrange the words correctly.
Language is not just a problem of vocabulary, but also a matter of stringing words into a sentence that can be understood the other person. "Give me orange" for example, not synonymous with "Give me orange"
In contrast to apes, humans have the ability to assemble small since the word. Humans have the ability to create a logical thinking by combining words. That ability is not owned by Nim and other apes.
Many scientists believe the human ability to innovate is a gift from birth. It is closely related to the complexity and richness of thought and ideas. That which distinguishes man from animal primates closest relatives of humans.
Herb Terrace, Nim project leader, said the chimpanzees did not have what he called "theoretical thinking". "They can not understand the mental feelings of other individuals, such as happy, sad, angry, interested in something, love, and jealousy."
Although chimps managed to understand the movement of his opponent's body language, according to the Terrace, they did not understand anything when there's no body language. "I believe the theory of thinking is a tremendous breakthrough that exist in the common ancestor of humans," he said.
So why Terrace thinking like that? He refers to the ability of Nim understood sign language. Like a young man who was a baby, Nim spoke in a "command language" when he wanted something. Command language, the word Terrace, not really a spoken language. When humans grow up, unlike chimpanzees, the human ability to communicate. higher and the phase of language that are in the "language of the statement."
"In the language of the statement, the language is based on two-way conversation between speaker and listener. The aim is to exchange information," said Terrace. "The statement is usually followed by an answer, such as thank you and very exciting."
In the "language of the statement," the theory of thinking is required. If the talks do not think it is based on the theory, there will be miscommunication. That is, the conversation would make no sense. "I have never seen any other than a conversation between people," said Terrace adds.
Limitations are also depicted in the film Rise of the Planet of the Apes. In the film, the monkeys were to communicate only through sign language, rather than verbal language, a very realistic scenario. *** [PROJECTNIM | LIFEMYSTERIES | FIRMAN | KORAN TEMPO 3610]
That story is just imagination "crazy" filmmaker in Hollywood. But, make no mistake, scientists from Columbia University did an experiment "similar" to a monkey in the decade 1970.
In a project named Nim's, scientists taught monkeys of this type behave like humans and chimps think like humans. The goal is to see if chimpanzees can learn human language.
After a few years to teach an ape named Nim Chimpsky live like humans, scientists do not get the expected results. Nim could only say in sign language, "Give orange me give eat orange me eat orange give me eat orange give me you."
The scientists concluded, although Nim able to express himself and expresses himself in sign language, like asking for orange and knows 125 words, he could not arrange the words correctly.
Language is not just a problem of vocabulary, but also a matter of stringing words into a sentence that can be understood the other person. "Give me orange" for example, not synonymous with "Give me orange"
In contrast to apes, humans have the ability to assemble small since the word. Humans have the ability to create a logical thinking by combining words. That ability is not owned by Nim and other apes.
Many scientists believe the human ability to innovate is a gift from birth. It is closely related to the complexity and richness of thought and ideas. That which distinguishes man from animal primates closest relatives of humans.
Herb Terrace, Nim project leader, said the chimpanzees did not have what he called "theoretical thinking". "They can not understand the mental feelings of other individuals, such as happy, sad, angry, interested in something, love, and jealousy."
Although chimps managed to understand the movement of his opponent's body language, according to the Terrace, they did not understand anything when there's no body language. "I believe the theory of thinking is a tremendous breakthrough that exist in the common ancestor of humans," he said.
So why Terrace thinking like that? He refers to the ability of Nim understood sign language. Like a young man who was a baby, Nim spoke in a "command language" when he wanted something. Command language, the word Terrace, not really a spoken language. When humans grow up, unlike chimpanzees, the human ability to communicate. higher and the phase of language that are in the "language of the statement."
"In the language of the statement, the language is based on two-way conversation between speaker and listener. The aim is to exchange information," said Terrace. "The statement is usually followed by an answer, such as thank you and very exciting."
In the "language of the statement," the theory of thinking is required. If the talks do not think it is based on the theory, there will be miscommunication. That is, the conversation would make no sense. "I have never seen any other than a conversation between people," said Terrace adds.
Limitations are also depicted in the film Rise of the Planet of the Apes. In the film, the monkeys were to communicate only through sign language, rather than verbal language, a very realistic scenario. *** [PROJECTNIM | LIFEMYSTERIES | FIRMAN | KORAN TEMPO 3610]
