linkedin post 2020-03-27 05:21:33

linkedin post 2020-03-27 05:21:33

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EX MACHINA, the film (2015). "Nathan admits that he surreptitiously used the clout of his company (read Google) to collect audiovisual data from billions of people, accumulating their most intimate experiences, and that he loaded this information to Ava's sophisticated chemical brain, which is very flexible and advances independently like humans." Deeply evocative film. http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ex_Machina_(film) View in LinkedIn
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linkedin post 2020-03-29 02:00:38

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IMPACT ON LANGUAGE. “How should we expect biology and culture to interact to shape language and the language faculty? One possibility is that the rate of language change far exceeds that of biological evolution, preventing genetic assimilation of linguistic features into the language faculty.” https://lnkd.in/dCmU6-w View in LinkedIn
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linkedin post 2020-03-28 05:12:21

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RAPID CHANGE. “A Foot in the River, subtitled Why Our Lives Change—and the Limits of Evolution. Fernandez-Armesto's explicit focus is the rapidity with which human culture changes. He contrasts contemporary human culture with cultures found in other primate species and with cultures found in other eras of human history, and he finds that contemporary human culture changes so rapidly that it stands out.” https://lnkd.in/d9XKzDt View in LinkedIn
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linkedin post 2020-03-28 05:10:07

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CULTURAL EVOLUTION. “This second evolutionary process has been instrumental in our species’ dramatic ecological success by allowing the rapid, open-ended generation and accumulation of technology, social institutions, knowledge systems and behavioural practices far beyond the complexity of other species’ socially learned behaviour.” https://lnkd.in/dWk69PN View in LinkedIn
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