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Re:SETI spots dozens of new mysterious signals emanating fro... by kamaal on Friday September 14, 2018 @08:00AM (#17986536)
No matter how hard you try, you cannot teach a mouse to learn french. That is why.
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Re:SETI spots dozens of new mysterious signals emanating fro... by zaarn on Friday September 14, 2018 @08:51AM (#17986807)
That's more a reason why knowledge is unlimited; a mouse is incapable of understanding french, but knowledge of french does and can exist, so the mouse doesn't know everything. There is a biological but not inherent limit.
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