Guest guest Posted January 27, 2004 Report Share Posted January 27, 2004 Parrot's oratory stuns scientists By Alex Kirby BBC News Online environment correspondent Feathered prodigy: N'kisi leads the field The finding of a parrot with an almost unparalleled power to communicate with people has brought scientists up short. The bird, a captive African grey called N'kisi, has a vocabulary of 950 words, and shows signs of a sense of humour. He invents his own words and phrases if he is confronted with novel ideas with which his existing repertoire cannot cope - just as a human child would do. N'kisi's remarkable abilities, which are said to include telepathy, feature in the latest BBC Wildlife Magazine. N'kisi is believed to be one of the most advanced users of human language in the animal world. About 100 words are needed for half of all reading in English, so if N'kisi could read he would be able to cope with a wide range of material. Polished wordsmith He uses words in context, with past, present and future tenses, and is often inventive. One N'kisi-ism was "flied" for "flew", and another "pretty smell medicine" to describe the aromatherapy oils used by his owner, an artist based in New York. When he first met Dr Jane Goodall, the renowned chimpanzee expert, after seeing her in a picture with apes, N'kisi said: "Got a chimp?" School's in: He is a willing learner He appears to fancy himself as a humourist. When another parrot hung upside down from its perch, he commented: "You got to put this bird on the camera." Dr Goodall says N'kisi's verbal fireworks are an "outstanding example of interspecies communication". In an experiment, the bird and his owner were put in separate rooms and filmed as the artist opened random envelopes containing picture cards. Analysis showed the parrot had used appropriate keywords three times more often than would be likely by chance. Captives' frustrations This was despite the researchers discounting responses like "What ya doing on the phone?" when N'kisi saw a card of a man with a telephone, and "Can I give you a hug?" with one of a couple embracing. Professor Donald Broom, of the University of Cambridge's School of Veterinary Medicine, said: "The more we look at the cognitive abilities of animals, the more advanced they appear, and the biggest leap of all has been with parrots." Alison Hales, of the World Parrot Trust, told BBC News Online: "N'kisi's amazing vocabulary and sense of humour should make everyone who has a pet parrot consider whether they are meeting its needs. "They may not be able to ask directly, but parrots are long-lived, and a bit of research now could mean an improved quality of life for years." Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted January 27, 2004 Report Share Posted January 27, 2004 - Tony OClery Tuesday, January 27, 2004 8:05 PM Who said the mind is the brain? Parrot's oratory stuns scientistsBy Alex Kirby BBC News Online environment correspondent Dear there is an excellent book called the Field, its full of Quantum scientists research. One of the concept in the book is that the brain is a retrieval device and that all experiences and knowledge can be retrieved from the "Field" This explains telepathy clairvoyance and many other paranormal experiences. The Field is all there is according to the book. We are just "patches" of consciousness in the universe. Its worth a read. Namaste Chris Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted January 28, 2004 Report Share Posted January 28, 2004 , "AnneChris" <am009a8716@b...> wrote: > > - > Tony OClery > > Tuesday, January 27, 2004 8:05 PM > Who said the mind is the brain? > > > Parrot's oratory stuns scientists > > By Alex Kirby > BBC News Online environment correspondent > > Dear > there is an excellent book called the Field, its full of Quantum scientists research. > One of the concept in the book is that the brain is a retrieval device and that all experiences and knowledge can be retrieved from the "Field" This explains telepathy clairvoyance and many other paranormal experiences. > The Field is all there is according to the book. We are just "patches" of consciousness in the universe. Its worth a read. > > Namaste Chris Namaste Chris, Yes the field is part of the universal mind. Sheldrake writes on this also. I mention him in an old article... http://www.geocities.com/aoclery/ThoughtForms.htm ONS..Tony Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted January 28, 2004 Report Share Posted January 28, 2004 Dear Chris I did not find anything about "The field" by Kirby Did you find a link? Thank you for your info its somehow "amazing" because this idea came to my mind rather long time ago a) the brain has every information b) "outside" of the body all informations are "saved" too bbc had an astonishing - for them - scientific programme about somebody who was really cilinically dead according to all criterias and afterwards the person told everything she "saw" while being operated on the brain conclusion by the scientist: there must be something outside the body which exists after death must be proven it is like a paradigma change but somehow this info did not proceed thank you for your help michael bindel >"AnneChris" > > >Re: Who said the mind is the brain? >Date: Tue, 27 Jan 2004 23:07:50 -0000 > > > - > Tony OClery > > Tuesday, January 27, 2004 8:05 PM > Who said the mind is the brain? > > > Parrot's oratory stuns scientists > > By Alex Kirby > BBC News Online environment correspondent > > Dear Tony > there is an excellent book called the Field, its full of Quantum scientists research. > One of the concept in the book is that the brain is a retrieval device and that all experiences and knowledge can be retrieved from the "Field" This explains telepathy clairvoyance and many other paranormal experiences. > The Field is all there is according to the book. We are just "patches" of consciousness in the universe. Its worth a read. > > Namaste Chris Add photos to your e-mail with MSN 8. Get 2 months FREE*. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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