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Only if you and your captives are able to communicate. If you have a fish tank, do your fish give you memes?
by do_not_redeem 2y ago
Only if you and your captives are able to communicate. If you have a fish tank, do your fish give you memes?
- Y_Y 2y agoSadly, no matter how many memes I give them they never give any back. Jerks.
- roywiggins 2y agoPeople can learn from just seeing stuff. You watch a guy preparing food in a different way, now you know that there's a different way. He wears a funny hat, maybe you try and make a copy, etc. Chimps and some other animals do this too.
- mmooss 2y agoWhy wouldn't they learn to communicate, like all other humans do?
- mcswell 2y agoFor the same reason that chimps don't (contrary to some earlier work) learn language.
- roywiggins 2y agoChimps have memes without language! Communication is a lot broader than just language.
- mmooss 2y agoWe are talking about Homo genus; I expect they had language (do we know?). The issue was communicating with others who speak a different language, and my point is that people manage it all the time.