Re: I know one when I see one

From: joedees@bellsouth.net
Date: Wed 30 Oct 2002 - 18:31:31 GMT

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    > On Wednesday, October 30, 2002, at 12:06 , Grant Callaghan wrote:
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    > >> Culture happens when alphabets happen.
    > >>
    > >> - Wade
    > >
    > > My observations suggest there was a lot of culture before there was
    > > any history. Musical instruments are at least 50,000 years old but
    > > alphabets less than 10,000.
    >
    > And my comment was not to be taken literally- I was not talking about
    > letters, but about similarities- the ability to command continuing
    > forms in memetic performance. Music is absolutely an alphabet in this
    > sense.
    >
    > - Wade
    >
    So would be the production of tool shapes, which far predates the emergence of created language systems.
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