Bats can predict the future, researchers discover
by David Solomonoff
Intelligent animals with radically different sensory organs and nervous systems perceive reality – including time and causality – very differently, providing insight into what it will be like when we encounter truly alien intelligences:
They can’t tell fortunes and they’re useless with the stock market but bats are quite skilled at predicting one thing: where to find dinner: calculate where their prey is headed by building on-the-fly predictive models of target motion from echoes.
