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- science@lemmit.online
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- science@lemmit.online
Team hopes findings will help improve equine welfare after showing cognitive abilities include being ‘goal-directed’
Team hopes findings will help improve equine welfare after showing cognitive abilities include being ‘goal-directed’
it looks like somebody in this story doesn’t understand the difference between strategy and tactics, which definitely seems like quite an important distinction in this case
Why is that important? If you want to separate the two, the strategy is obvious.
thinking tactically is short term, thinking strategically is long-term, especially with the “plan ahead” in the title
nothing about the test described in the article implies that horses are capable of doing that though