Darwin's mistake: Explaining the discontinuity between human and nonhuman minds

By Derek C. Penn, Keith J. Holyoak, Daniel J. Povinelli. Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 2008

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Subfields: Cultural Studies, Developmental and Educational Psychology, Social Psychology

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Symposium on S. Butterfill and I. Apperly, "How to Construct a Minimal Theory of Mind" (2013, neutral): “ey are opposed by Penn and colleagues who postulate that scrub-jays are not ascribing knowledge but using rules such as ‘Try to re-cache food in a site different from the one where it was cached when the competitor was present’ (Penn et al. 2008; Penn & Povinelli 2007).”
The myth of language universals: language diversity and its importance for cognitive science. (2009, neutral): “According to our hypothesis (Penn et al. 2008), animals of many taxa evolved the ability to represent first-order symbolic relations; but only humans evolved the ability to approximate the higher-order capabilities of a PSS.”
Teaching the Conceptual Structure of Mathematics (2012, neutral): “It has been argued that analogical reasoning is at the core of what is unique about human intelligence (Penn, Holyoak, & Povinelli, 2008 ).”
Origins of Meaning: Must We 'Go Gricean'? (2013, neutral): “(See Fitch, 2010, pp. 175f.) 2 Penn et al. (2008) argue for a synchronic gulf, while clearly embracing diachronic continuity.”
Where Hypotheses Come From: Learning New Relations by Structural Alignment (2010, neutral): “1 The question of whether and to what degree these analogical abilities are shared with other species has recently been the topic of much research and discussion (eg, Gentner, 2003 ; Gentner & Christie, 2008 ; Penn, Holyoak, & Povinelli, 2008 ).”
Why humans are (sometimes) less rational than other animals: Cognitive complexity and the axioms of rational choice (2013, neutral): “They allow the query ‘‘if I had a different set of desires, it would be preferable to the ones I have now’’ and they appear to be uniquely human (Penn et al., 2008).”
Emergent analogical reasoning in large language models (2022, neutral): “But there is no reason to suppose that the same system, absent human-generated inputs, would spontaneously develop a disposition to think analogi-cally, as apparently happened at some point in human evolution 61 .”
Are bigger brains better? (2009, neutral): “While the mechanism by which bees solve this problem is not yet understood, these experiments and bees’ performance are comparable to those performed on vertebrates [18], although some aspects of sameness/difference concepts might be considered uniquely human [75].”
On the Absence of X-within-X Recursion in Human Grammar (2012, neutral): “The comparative literature provides strong evidence to the contrary (Terrace 2005, Penn, Holyoak, and Povinelli 2008, Tomasello 2008).”