From ResearchID.org

The following paper breaks down behavior into various classifications so that things like foresight ("predictive behavior" requiring extrapolation ability) and "purpose" can be better understood. It is well worth studying to get a better understanding of the differences in abilities of intelligence of humans vs other creatures. Please notice in the paper how various levels of "predictive behavior" (foresight) is broken down into different classes or orders:

BEHAVIOR, PURPOSE AND TELEOLOGY "... The amoeba merely follows the source to which it reacts; there is no evidence that it extrapolates the path of a moving source. ... A cat starting to pursue a running mouse does not run directly toward the region where the mouse is at any given time, but moves toward an extrapolated future position.

... Indeed, it is possible that one of the features of the discontinuity of behavior observable when comparing humans with other high mammals may lie in that the other mammals are limited to predictive behavior of a low order, whereas man may be capable potentially of quite high orders of prediction."

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