How to Predict the Future Better than a Dolphin
Imagining What’s Next. Reviewing ‘The Invention of Tomorrow: A Natural History of Foresight’
Dolphins are smart. To test how smart, researchers gave a pair of bottlenoses a series of puzzles with escalating difficulty. For the basic test the dolphins had to gather nearby rings and drop them in a container, which they did one ring at a time, for a fishy reward. Researchers then separated the rings and container by 150 feet, forcing the dolphins …
