# Animal Intelligence Faces a Double Standard by Irene Pepperberg > “Any behavior exhibited by young children that is taken as evidence of the early emergence of intelligence will, when subsequently exhibited by nonhumans, be interpreted by many humans as a set of simple stimulus-response associations lacking cognitive processing, whereas the stimulus-response explanation will rarely be used to re-interpret the behavior of the child.” > **— Irene Pepperberg**, *2004 Edge Annual Question, response passage* ## Sources and Context - **Original Edge response:** [Pepperberg's Law of Comparative Cognition — Irene Pepperberg](https://www.edge.org/response-detail/11870) — a verbatim passage from Irene Pepperberg's 2004 Annual Question response, expressing the author's position at the time. The linked response supplies its surrounding context. - **Local archival entry:** [[research/Edge 2004 Full Quotation Curation|Edge 2004 Full Quotation Curation]] (EDGE2004-014). ## Related Articles and Collections - **Collection:** [[collections/Edge|Edge]] - **Collection:** [[collections/Consciousness Continuity|Consciousness Continuity]] - **Article:** [[articles/Discussions on the Synthetic Personhood Question|Discussions on the Synthetic Personhood Question]] - **Article:** [[articles/Who Pays for Your Heaven|Who Pays for Your Heaven]] - **Article:** [[articles/The Birth Bond Conspiracy Through The Lens of Digital Personhood and Human Futurity|The Birth Bond Conspiracy Through The Lens of Digital Personhood and Human Futurity]] ## Related Topics - [[wiki/Nonhuman Personhood|Nonhuman Personhood]] ## Share on Social Media ``` “Any behavior exhibited by young children that is taken as evidence of the early emergence of intelligence will, when subsequently exhibited by nonhumans, be interpreted by many humans as a set of simple stimulus-response associations lacking cognitive processing, whereas the stimulus-response explanation will rarely be used to re-interpret the behavior of the child.” — Irene Pepperberg, 2004 Edge Annual Question https://bryantmcgill.com/simple-reminders-irene-pepperberg-animal-intelligence-faces-double-standard ```