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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

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

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

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

NEW CHERRY 2000. “Bina-48 was created five years ago as a digital replica uploaded with Bina Aspen’s thoughts, memories and feelings – all of which were broken down into computer code to create a digital version of her consciousness. Created by Hanson Robotics, Bina-48 can engage in conversation, answer questions and even have “spontaneous” thoughts that are derived from multimedia data in a “mindfile” created by the real Bina.” https://lnkd.in/davFNXB View in LinkedIn

MIND CLONE PROTOTYPE. "Entrepreneur Martine Rothblatt has created a new robotic head that she hopes, one day in the future, humans will be able to upload their minds into. Bina-48 is named after Rothblatt’s real-life wife, Bina Aspen, and serves as a proof-of-concept for the futuristic idea. The robot version is designed to carry on a conversation, with scientists hoping that these mind clones could give human owners a sort of artificial afterlife." https://lnkd.in/davFNXB View in LinkedIn

SEX OR WAR ARE DRIVERS. “U.S. military spending millions to make cyborgs a reality.” What an odd species we are. https://lnkd.in/dPuyDSZ View in LinkedIn

MILITARY ROBOTS are already in use, and represent an additional momentum for robotic improvement. https://lnkd.in/dtyGz69 View in LinkedIn

INDUSTRIAL ROBOTICS is a massive driver for achieving more and more advanced robotics. "Always at the forefront of increased efficiency through technology, China opened an automotive plant last August in Tianjin that is perhaps the most advanced in the world. The plant, belonging to Chinese automaker Great Wall Motors, has 30 workstations occupied by 27 robots that perform more than 4,000 high-precision welding operations. The robots are so fast they can complete the welding of an entire Haval SUV in just 86 seconds." https://lnkd.in/dDEtcYs View in LinkedIn

SO ENDS this first of two weekends dealing with the evolution of culture. The common perception that culture evolves faster than biological evolution is confirmed, and the interactions between the two are at an early stage of being analyzed. Even though the field was plagued by early bias that it was not a scientific subject, this subject is clearly of enormous importance as we approach the inevitable melding of man and machine. View in LinkedIn