The Mentality of Apes

by Wolfgang Köhler and Wolfgang. Kohler

Book Overview

Wolfgang K hler demonstrated that chimpanzees could solve problems by applying insight. His research showed that the intellectual gap between humans and chimpanzees was much narrower than previously... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1446528359
• ISBN13: 9781446528358
• Release Date: January 2011
• Publisher: Fisher Press
• Length: 360 Pages
• Weight: 1.01 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.5" x 8.5"

Customer Reviews

A Work on 'Natural Intelligence' [Not AI]-- For Witting All Problem-Solving--To Ultimate-Concern/Pea

Kohler's THE MENTALITY OF APES provides me with a model of anthropoid (one certainly may read here 'homo sapiens in-sapiens') problem solving-- which to his careful examination of leftover zoo chimps hardly resembles the problem-solving of 'switching circuitry' at the foundation of the modern computer. [In such a way-- reading Kohler and all the subsequent Gestaltists-- I am inclined to think the AI/artificial-intelligence model for 'neural networks' to be a great boon to top-down/bottom-up problematic resolution-- but emphatically INACCURATE for defining the neuro-physiological pragmatics of how mammals/apes/humans muddle-through in total-systems-ways-- bodily, psychically, 'socially' {NOT an irrelevant consideration in the behavioral phenotype!}] The power of models that have-effect for PCs is useful for the 'monkeys-we-is' as tooling problem-resolution, but the animal-us still goes about problem-solving in ways indistinguishable-- and at all hyle-bio-psycho-social ways comparable to Kohler's ape-mentality. My long-term interest in poring this book, with repetitive reads, fast, slow, selective, total, close, spacy-reflective-- will in part be to examine the hyle-bio-psycho-sociality of PRAYER as a problem-solving identical to the muddlement of Kohler's Chimps. Too long I think the societal/social rubricization of praying as some bowing-head-closing-eyes-folding-hands-saying-cliches business and not the mode of the prophets JESUS ISAIAH MUHAMMAD LAO-TZE CRAZY-HORSE-- and the vexing hexing trouble which constitutes the problematic of the truly Gestalt-generating palpably evidences in the Writs these Whollies/Holies have artifacted for us (Q in the case of Jesus Nazarene.) As the language-of-nature is the-Law-of-God/Jahweh/Allah-- for all its bittersweet & AC/DC-- warts-and-all-- NOT the supposed-to-Be of (Roman, Anglican, Eastern) Catholicisms-- may we attack the Answers derivative from what Paul Tillich called 'the shaking of the foundations' and thence resolution-- 'all warfare accomplished' (Isaiah 40:2.) This book then begins to approach/attack an issue clearly invoked from Kohler-- but then to Abraham Maslow-- IF there be Insights/Gestalts/Formative-Peak-Experiences, HOW do we generate them in a way not-Madness, not-Derangement, not-Psychosis, then not-Disturbing-the-Peace-Disorderly-Conduct. --Vernon Lynn Stephens