Crow Solves 8-stage Puzzle

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You’ve seen how smart crows can be. These amazing birds use tools, they can count, they hold grudges, they like to play in the snow, and they know how to get what they want. But even after all that, this will impress you.

One particular bird, named 007, was confronted with a novel puzzle he must solve to get a bite to eat. He was familiar with the separate components, but here he must use them all together, in a specific order. Dr. Alex Taylor takes us through the experiment in this clip from the BBC TV show Inside the Animal Mind. -via Daily Picks and Flicks


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The real question is what do they have to say?

"Still, he shies away from asking patients the toughest question of all — whether they wish life support to be ended — saying that it is too early to think about such applications."
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As I understand it; locked-in syndrome is caused by a lesion of the pons. The pons doesn't have anything to do with consciousness or cognition except in acting as a bridge for sensory feedback. A person with a lesion of the pons cannot initiate motor activity or receive feedback from their extremities and trunk because the signal is severed above the brain-stem but below the cerebral cortices and limbic system. Consciousness is localizable to activity of the cortico-thalamic complex which doesn't involve the pons. The pons is a relay station between parts of the brain and the body. A person with locked-in syndrome can be fully rational and lucid while not being able to communicate at all. I would be asking is there any evidence that they are not? Are there any additional lesions affecting other brain areas associated with consciousness and cognition?
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