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
linkedin post 2020-03-29 01:59:23
MAKING THE MIND. “We therefore expect culture to have dramatically shaped the evolution of the human mind, giving us innate predispositions that only weakly constrain our behavior.” https://lnkd.in/dCmU6-w View in LinkedIn
linkedin post 2020-03-29 01:58:03
NATIVISM. “Culture facilitates rapid biological adaptation yet rules out nativism: Behavioral universals arise that are underpinned by weak biases rather than strong innate constraints.” https://lnkd.in/dCmU6-w View in LinkedIn
linkedin post 2020-03-29 01:56:28
HUGE ISSUE. “Culture shapes the evolution of cognition culture, radically alters the relationship between natural selection and cognition.” https://lnkd.in/dCmU6-w View in LinkedIn
linkedin post 2020-03-28 05:12:21
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