linkedin post 2020-03-28 05:08:31
THE PROCESS. “High fidelity social learning allows the preservation/accumulation of cultural traits.” https://lnkd.in/dWk69PN View in LinkedIn
linkedin post 2020-03-28 05:07:47
REASON FOR SUCCESS. “Humans have colonised and transformed every terrestrial environment on the planet. This ecological success can be attributed to our capacity for cultural evolution.” (But more so have microbes, including bacteria and viruses), https://lnkd.in/dWk69PN View in LinkedIn
linkedin post 2020-03-28 05:06:18
THE DIFFERENCE. “All primates engage in one or another form of social learning. Humans engage in cultural learning.” (See later in this topic), https://lnkd.in/dV4Wk5g View in LinkedIn
linkedin post 2020-03-28 05:04:17
RECENT STUDIES. “In the past few decades, scholars from several disciplines have pursued the curious parallel noted by Darwin between the genetic evolution of species and the cultural evolution of beliefs, skills, knowledge, languages, institutions, and other forms of socially transmitted information.” https://lnkd.in/dEH-wAF View in LinkedIn
linkedin post 2020-03-28 05:03:20
CULTURE as “shared meaning systems passed on across generations.” https://lnkd.in/dfnBFVP View in LinkedIn
linkedin post 2020-03-28 05:02:34
CORNERSTONE QUOTE. “Theodosius Dobzhansky, "Nothing in Biology Makes Sense Except in the Light of Evolution" (1973) https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nothing_in_Biology_Makes_Sense_Except_in_the_Light_of_Evolution View in LinkedIn
linkedin post 2020-03-28 05:00:47
FRAGMENT FROM NATURE spends this and next weekend looking at the biology of culture, a challenging but important subject. Only recently have scientists started to tackle seriously this topic, previously thought unscientific and probably bogus. But careful thinking combined with animal survey across taxa of behavior suggest it is not only real, but widespread in nature. Even microbes have social culture and communication. View in LinkedIn
linkedin post 2020-03-27 05:25:06
UPLOAD. “In the new techno-thriller “Upload,” a young computer scientist with a sketchy past and distrust of society decides to take the ultimate leap forward by scanning his brain and uploading his memories, personality and consciousness into a simulated world of his own making.” https://lnkd.in/dFVg79g View in LinkedIn
linkedin post 2020-03-27 05:21:33
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
linkedin post 2020-03-29 02:00:38
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