Bonobo Knows

We Have Concerns

Anthony Carboni/Jeff Cannata

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4.9 • 2K Ratings

🗓️ 21 October 2016

⏱️ 23 minutes

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Summary

An international study found that chimpanzees, bonobos and orangutans seem to have the ability to see the world from someone else's point of view, even when they know that point of view is dead wrong — a trait that once was considered uniquely human It's called theory of mind, or the ability to know that others have different beliefs and perspectives. Jeff and Anthony talk about animal intelligence, and the concept of "false thoughts".

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0:00.0	We have concerns, provides you with joy we hope.
0:04.3	Yeah, we hope. We never check in to see.
0:06.8	Value?
0:07.6	Yeah, we'd like that.
0:08.8	Well, we would love some joy and value and return in the form of money.
0:12.6	Can we have some money?
0:13.4	Yeah, give us some money.
0:14.6	Patreon.com slash we have concerns.
0:16.0	Patreon.com slash we have concerns.
0:30.0	You do want to be food.
0:34.4	I want to dress like Poochee and I got no qualms about that.
0:37.8	This is we have concerns.
0:38.9	Hi, Jeff Canada.
0:39.7	Hi, Anthony Carvone.
0:40.8	Hello, concerned citizens.
0:42.4	Poochee, my God.
0:43.7	My God, you're your goals.
0:47.3	We got ourselves a story here that has some interesting ramifications.
0:51.4	It turns out chimpanzees, bonabos, ringtanks, apes.
0:56.3	There is a study that was just published
0:59.2	that proves that they might have what's known as false thoughts.
1:05.3	What's a false thought?
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