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A pro-dog friend tells me that some dogs can learn to look where you are pointing. Human toddlers all learn to use and understand the pointing gesture very early but there is controversy about how much this is supported by innate factors. Perhaps it is entirely innate. |
A pro-dog friend tells me that some dogs can learn to look where you are pointing. Human toddlers all learn to use and understand the pointing gesture very early but there is controversy about how much this is supported by innate factors. Perhaps it is entirely innate. |
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Revision as of 16:17, 21 April 2006
"The sage points at the moon; the fool bites his finger." – attributed to Lao Tsu
Warren McCulloch used this version:
"A child looks where you are pointing; a dog comes to your finger."
But issues about learning are seldom quite clear:
A pro-dog friend tells me that some dogs can learn to look where you are pointing. Human toddlers all learn to use and understand the pointing gesture very early but there is controversy about how much this is supported by innate factors. Perhaps it is entirely innate.