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> they don't have civilization, art, morals, laws, and the practices for developing and improving these things in the minds of our children How can you be so s
by wombatmobile 6y ago
> they don't have civilization, art, morals, laws, and the practices for developing and improving these things in the minds of our children
How can you be so sure of that?
Clearly they don't build roads, city halls, cinemaplexes, court houses, theatres, or boxing rings, and they didn't invent Spotify, but neither did you do any of that, and you have culture, don't you, even if you don't engage with any of those examples from 20th century homo sapien culture?
https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rsos.190337 https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rsos.190337
https://www.nationalgeographic.com/animals/article/130425-humpback-whale-culture-behavior-science-animals https://www.nationalgeographic.com/animals/article/130425-hu...
http://www.replicatedtypo.com/cultural-transmission-observed-in-whales/3463.html http://www.replicatedtypo.com/cultural-transmission-observed...
https://www.zoology.ubc.ca/~barrett/documents/Asoundapproachtothestudyofculture.pdf https://www.zoology.ubc.ca/~barrett/documents/Asoundapproach...
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0960982211002910 https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S096098221...
https://ceal.lab.uq.edu.au/project/cultural-transmission-humpback-whale-song https://ceal.lab.uq.edu.au/project/cultural-transmission-hum...
- ohthehugemanate 6y agoObligatory Douglas Adams > "For instance, on the planet Earth, man had always assumed that he was more intelligent than dolphins because he had achieved so much—the wheel, New York, wars and so on—whilst all the dolphins had ever done was muck about in the water having a good time. But conversely, the dolphins had always believed that they were far more intelligent than man—for precisely the same reasons." -- the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy