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I wait patiently for somebody, anybody, to concede/admit…you are correct…i was mistaken…

Am i just waiting for Godot?

Autumn i may have indicated already that you would make a heck of an attorney.

Perfect analytical mind for law.

Majesty takes me to august. Such a nice and underused word.

Even you Autumn are not wont to use august.

Language evolves. Eventually it will be good English construction when one says/writes, “amount of people.” That hurts me mentally. I am okay with aint. Aint you? As a kid aint was verboten. There was a children’s ditty, “Don’t say aint, your mother will faint, your father will fall in a bucket of paint, sister will die, brother will cry, dog will…[Read more]

Pope, perhaps you are not familiar but an Einsteiny macaque began washing fruit and others copied. So washing becomes cultural. A learned behavior simply adopted by doing as others are doing. I simply wonder how ritualized behavior originates and becomes coded. I probably read an explanation in what is his face-the imprint on ducks guy-Lorenz.…[Read more]

Pope, good stuff.

Genetic and cultural evolution. The two must be related. At some point all of those courtship rituals had a beginning. One unusual member of a species went cuckoo. And others joined in. So at some point that first macaque that washed fruit and had others observe and follow will become genetic. I guess, i don’t reallly…[Read more]

Pope, you undersell yourself as a communicator.

I agree with most of you’ve written.

I think dogs read us and our facial expressions as well as we do each other. Also very hip to our mood. It is my understanding that all (or nearly all) primates have emotions that are elicited by like-stimulus and are expressed facially in nearly the same way.…[Read more]

From Pope:

and a strong urge to communicate with each other in ways that go much deeper than ways among other animals

Not sure about that. Not an assumption i make.

The word nanotechnology came to mind. It is a brave new world we are about to destroy.

Robert if you don’t mind which funds or equities are you in?

Robert, that is a great bet-wagering on the coming medical revolution.

Robert you raise a monumental issue.

How do we come to terms with foreign nations and mega corporations transforming our gullible population into marionettes? No emphasis in our culture on thinking for oneself. Churches, shit schools, shit parents, shit teachers, bullshit patriotism, shit for brains..

Additionally cultural homage to a false…[Read more]

i knew about their biology but also thought it was octopi.

Autumn, i strongly suspect intelligence makes animals more adaptable and perhaps leads to new niches as well. But yeah there is a cost for a bigger brain. Hell, i can’t even find a hat that fits.

Count me in as someone who eats seafood but not octo. I feel at ease devouring a bivalve though.

Surprisingly none of us have mentioned that the…[Read more]